Tuesday, July 27 at 7:00pm
Klezmer meets Americana meets jazz
Had there been a planetarium in 19th-century Galicia, or a kosher deli in Depression-era Kentucky, Andy Statman’s music might have been playing in the background. Meandering through time, geography and culture in a few passionate, organic gusts of music, neither the man nor his inimitable hybrid sound has a very clearly defined “before” or “after.”
Statman, one of his generation’s premier mandolinists and clarinetists thinks of his compositions as “a spontaneous, American-roots form of very personal, prayerful hasidic music, by way of avant-garde jazz.” This small, modest man takes for granted that a performer might embody several worlds in his art, and seems not to recognize that his music, like his story, is extraordinary.
For more information:
ANDY STATMAN Live at the Gantries from Live at the Gantries on Vimeo.
