The Afro-Semitic Experience @ HotHouse

The Afro-Semitic Experience is a jazz ensemble dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Jewish and African diasporas. This is a band that can present interpretations of music from traditions as rich as Gospel, Klezmer, Niggunim, Spirituals, and Swing- all within the same tune. That's the Afro-Semitic Experience- a group as comfortable playing a bulgar as swingin' a blues, that knows how to play a freylakh or some funk.

African-American jazz pianist Warren Byrd, and Jewish-American jazz bassist David Chevan combine their talents to fuse centuries-old melodies, selecting pieces from their respective traditions that speak to the soul and that emphasize and reveal the similarities at the heart of the passions, suffering and joys of these two worlds.

"A brilliant piano-bass duo reading of tunes from the Jewish and African-American sacred traditions and easily the best record this year. Warm, intelligent and swinging..." The NY Jewish Week

"A hauntingly effective balance between parallel cultural traditions..." Jazz critic Howard Reich, The Chicago Tribune

Sound Clips:

• Let Us Break Bread Together

• Oseh Shalom (take 2)

• Eliyahu HaNavi

• Soon I Will Be Done

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Presented as part of KFAR's concert series