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Midrash Mish Mosh

Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh
Performance at Satalla, Feb. 9, 2005
Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh will perform at the popular world music club Satalla on Wednesday, Feb. 9., at 10:00 PM.
Satalla is located at 37 West 26th St. in New York City.
Tickets will be $12 at the door.
Phone 212 576 1155.

Midrash Mish Mosh recently released their debut CD on John Zorn‚s Tzadik label to rave reviews. The all-original music, written by Alexander, is rooted in the klezmer tradition, yet reaches out to embrace and include Jazz, thrash punk, middle-eastern and israeli music, and balkan and african rhythms. The band features an mix of downtown jazz/jewish music all-stars and great young players in the klezmer scene. The band at Satalla will be:
Frank London ˆtrumpet,
Susan Watts ˆ trumpet,
Alex Kontorovich ˆ clarinet,
Greg Wall- saxophone & clarinet
Curtis Hasselbring ˆ trombone,
Brad Shepik ˆ guitar,
Fima Ephron - bass,
Mike Sarin ˆ drums,
Aaron Alexander ˆ drums

Drummer and Composer Aaron Alexander is considered by many to be a fantastic klezmer and jazz drummer and composer. His new CD "Midrash Mish Mosh" has been acclaimed by critics, musicians and listeners alike. Over the past decade and a half his performances and recordings with Hasidic New Wave, Babkas, The Klezmatics, Greg Wall's Later Prophets, Alicia Svigals, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Tronzo Trio, Jay Clayton, Margot Leverett, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Boban Markovich Orchestra and Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars have brought his music to the attention of listeners all over the world. Alexander conceived and co-produced Hasidic New Wave‚s 2002 collaboration with Senegalese Sabar drum ensemble Yakar Rhythms, which was widely acclaimed by critics and public alike: It was an "inspired collaboration‰ and a "brilliant Afro-Semitic fusion" wrote Jazz Times writer Bill Milkowski.