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Septeto Rodriguez.(Baila! Gitano Baila!)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Septeto Rodriguez. Baila! Gitano Baila! Tzadik TZ 7189, 2004.
In answer to the imaginary question "Why Jewish-Cuban fusion music?", composer and percussionist Roberto Juan Rodriguez responds with an enthusiastic--indeed, almost wild-eyed--"Why not?". On his first album (El Danzon de Moises, Tzadik TZ 7158 [2002], CD), he laid out his musical manifesto: there is a vibrant Jewish musical culture in Cuba (with which he became intimately acquainted as a performer in various Havana synagogues in the 1970s) and someone needed to document that culture's rich mix of plaintive, modal Eastern European melodies and snaky, lissome Latin rhythms. Not since Jeff "King Django" Baker harnessed the ska beat in the service of traditional Yiddish song and Orthodox doctrinal harangue ...
- Septeto Rodriguez ¡Baila Gitano Baila!(Reseña de audio grabación)
- Magazine article from: Latin Beat Magazine Mangual, Rudy December 1, 2004 700+ words
SEPTETO RODRIGUEZ Baila Gitano Baila! (Tzadik Records) Cuban drummer/arranger/composer Roberto...revealing stories of a joyous people on the title track Baila Gitano Baila!--and a song about a pirul (lollipop) sold mostly by Polish...
- From the editor.(music industry events and recordings from 2004)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Latin Beat Magazine Mangual, Rudy Mangual, Yvette December 1, 2004 700+ words
...production Kuero (the West Coast's answer to the numerous hybrids of salsa and acid jazz), and Septeto Rodrguez's Baila Gitano Baila! (a succulent blend of Hebrew music and Afro Cuban rhythms). In Latin pop, Alejandro Sanz continued to rule while Juanes...
- Shtetl Superstars.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist Gray, Louise July 1, 2007 700+ words
...the 19 tracks of Shtetl Superstars, it's just that they are infused with North African Ladino (Oi Va Voi), reggae (King Django's Roots and Culture) and in, the oddest sample, glam rock (Boogie Balagan). There are surprises. 'This and That...
