Joel Rubin. Hungry Hearts: Classic Yiddish Clarinet Solos of the 1920s, 1998 (SM 1615-2) [Remastered and re-edited version of cassette originally released as Joel Rubin Klezmer Band: Brave Old World, 1988]
CD out of print; available as download only
“A klezmer classic … an important album to have in one’s collection”
(Jewish Herald-Voice)
“Rubin is meanwhile the undisputed mentor of the American New Klezmer Revival. And rightly so, as proved by Hungry Hearts, on which Rubin is accompanied by leaders of the genre. In contrast to many … attempts to approach klezmer in an innovative way, here one finds ‘soul.’ No academic demonstration of virtuosity, but rather a natural, living music which obviously imparts as good a time to listeners as it did to the musicians themselves”
(Westzeit 7/98)
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