Gershwin The Klezmer

"This is the soundtrack to a show my wife and I saw in St. Paul on Christmas Eve 2011. The show, The Soul of Gershwin, was absolutely fabulous, and written by the piano player. The band was only about 20 feet to my left, about a 10 piece: violin, horns, piano, drums... We go to shows all the time and I can't remember a better one! I was on fire. I literally sang my way out of the theater.  The CD is not exactly the same people but it's equally great. I highly recommend it." "...close the book and listen—to Herbie Hancock’s Grammy-winning “Gershwin’s World,” to Marcus Roberts’s distinctly personal “Rhapsody” on “Portraits in Blue” (with a band that mixes jazz musicians and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s), or, for that matter, to the recent “Gershwin the Klezmer”—and he is everywhere." Claudia Roth Pierpont, writing in The New Yorker Magazine, January 2, 2005 "wall-to-wall with drop-dead gorgeous tunes...Klezmerica is a wonder, whether the players are tearing through a rip-snorting klezmer