Alphabetical Index to Website Entries: J
Jack Beilan & Friends
Jack Beilan has opened up a new website to promote the new CD From the Heart of a Jewish Soul which features 21 musicians, all with extensive professional experience in the pop music world (such as members working with various popular artists James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart or Neville Brothers). The group is also available for selected appropriate synagogue and spiritual events and performances. They just performed on December 3, 2000, at the Theatre For The Performing Arts at California State University at Northridge. The music is aimed at Reform congregations and those welcoming contemporary-influenced Jewish spiritual music. Jack Beilan has been Musical Director for Valley Outreach Synagogue, a Reform Jewish congregation in Los Angeles.
http://www.serenitysong.com/
Jacobo Schkliar
Jacobo Schkliar, who served as chazzan and organist in Buenos Aires, Argentina is honored in a website that features a brief biography and some sound files of his recordings.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Opera/7929/
Flory Jagoda
Born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, Ms. Jagoda now resides in Virginia. She is a composer, singer and folklorist in Judeo-Spanish, Ladino and Sephardic traditions. In 2002, Ms. Jagoda won the National Endowment of the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.
National Endowment Announcement
Celebrate Series on Flory Jagoda
Janet and Jack Esim Ensemble
Turkish musicians performing Judeo-Espagnol songs and Sephardic music. Janet was born in Ankara in 1965 and Jak was born in Ýstanbul in 1958. Together they have made several albums, including Judeo Espanyol Ezgiler (1989) with Erkan Ogur and Antik Bir Hüzün (1992) with Erkan Ogur and Okay Temiz. Also, Nezih Yesilnil, (Bass); Murat Ozbey, Bülent Ortacgil and Erkan Ogur (Fretless Guitar, Oud)join them for their European concert tours.
http://www.oz-ist.com/janetandjak.html
Jeff Janning
The Alta Rocker and His Corned Beef Rangers ride again. Blues, country? rock. CD baby selling as "Basic four piece Fender Guitar Bass Drums rock with funny English lyrics on Jewish themes." JMWC says "Gives new meaning to the word schlock." Some "fake-Yiddish-accent-type-humor". Songs like "Don't Eat the Pork", and "Don't Ogle my Kugel". Some people might like the camp. Soung bites are available at the CD Baby site.
http://www.jeffjanning.com
Rahel Jaskow
Rahel Jaskow produced a CD of Jewish Sabbath songs in Hebrew and English. Day of Rest was released in November 2000 and subsequently won the 2001 Just Plain Folks music award for best CD in the ethnic music category. Her bio states that after majoring in English at the University of Rochester, Jaskow moved to Jerusalem, Israel. "She serves as a prayer leader for the women's prayer groups Shirat Sara and Women of the Wall, and also participates regularly in the Leader Minyan as a Torah reader." Ms. Jaskow's voice quality is rich, enchanting and extremely appealing as an Israeli-style "traditional folk" artist. She performs a cappella using recorded versions of herself to create a small group effect.
http://www.geocities.com/raheljaskow/
The Jerusalem Cantors Choir
The Jerusalem Cantors Choir of Jerusalem, Israel, has a new website giving information about the group and its performances.
http://www.jcc.org.il/
Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra
A 6-member klezmer group in Budapest led by Laszlo Szirtes. Laszlo arranges the klezmer and Yiddish music. The website is in Hungarian. It is kept current with dates and places of gigs and performances, and with photos of the group, and contact information. E-mail: szibill@hotmail.com
http://www.szirtes-jeko.hu/
The Jerusalem Lyric Trio
Amalia Ishak, soprano; Wendy Eisler-Kashy, flute; and
Allan Sternfield, piano are the trio's performers.
The Jerusalem Lyric Trio is an Israeli ensemble that highlights the religious and cultural heritage of the Jewish people in its performances. Since 1995, they have performed our programs throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the United States, South America, Russia, and of course, Israel.
The Trio's repertoire, in addition to familiar classical repertoire, includes works inspired by biblical texts, Jerusalem, the landscape of
Israel, the Holocaust, and familiar songs (in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino). They have represented Israel in international music festivals, including
the Old Testament in the Arts (Prague), Judische Kulturtage (Munich), Musical Spring in St. Petersburg (Russia), The Eighth International New Music Festival (Riga, Latvia), Encuentros (Buenos Aires), Concentus Moravaie (Czech Republic) and the Budapest Spring Festival 2000. The Trio released a CD in 2001 entitled "If I Forget You, O Jerusalem".
For information contact:JERUSALEM LYRIC TRIO
kashy@internet-zahav.net
tel/fax 972 9 7669415
www.jerusalemlyrictrio.com
Jerusalem Musical Trio
The Jerusalem Musical Trio, with Director, Bella Kresin, pianist, consists of soloists from "LAMA LO!" klezmer band. The ensemble consists of Roman Kekhman(Clarinets - B, C, Eb, Bass Clarinet; Saxophone - Tenor, Saxophone - Alto ), Yakov Entin (Violin, Guitar); and Bella Kresin, who accompanies them on the Piano or Electric Piano (Keyboards). The Ensemble presents a new view of traditional Jewish folklore by blending traditional klezmer music with elements of classical, jazz and Middle Eastern ethnic music, thus forming the bright individual and creative manner of the group. The repertoire includes free interpretations of well-known popular melodies (niguns and freilaches),popular songs (in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian).
Jerusalem Musical Trio are UNESCO Prize Winners "For Interactive Dialog Between the different Culture Through Music" 2003, Samarkand). They are the Gold Chanukiya Prize Winners (2003, Berlin). Roman Kekhman is a Laureate(1 Prize) at the Competition of Ethic Music in Israel (2002). He is a "divinely inspired clarinet performer, whose performance is tinged with genuine musical
feeling supported with versatile rich timbre." JMT have extensive experience from participation in various concerts, international festivals and events, as a listing of their performances abroad shows: Minsk (2001), Baku (2001), Tokio (2002), Bangkok (2002), Shanghai (2002), Hong-Kong (2002), New York (2003), Washington(2003), Charlston(2003), Samarkand (2003), Moscow,(2004), St. Petersburg (2004), Belgrade (2005), Zagreb (2005), Split (2005).
http://www.musictrio.com
Jerusalem of Gold
This is a web site not only about the song "Jerusalem of Gold", but the history and meaning of the a jerusalem of gold. The site provides lyrics, translation and musical notation. It also provides historical background of the song Jewish sources relating to the themes.
http://www.jerusalemofgold.co.il
Jerusalem Oratorio
Consisting of about 150 members, and led by director Ronen Borshevsky, the choir assembles to perform large choral works. They also work in smaller groups including six adult choirs and two children's choirs. They perform with various ensembles and symphonies around Israel. The website is in both Hebrew and English. There is information about their CDs. The Jerusalem Oratorio Choir is located at: 22 S.Y. Agnon Street, Jerusalem, Israel. Tel: 972-2-6480126. Fax: 972-2-6796652. E-mail: jerusalem_oratorio@lycos.com
http://jerusalem_oratorio.tripod.com/index.html
Jewish Cello Music
An informative site about selections of serious music for cello which have Jewish themes. Included is information about each composer and some suggested selections. The author, a cellist, provides "quotes on Jewish music" which is a brief but interesting section.
http://www.cello.org/cnc/jewish.htm
Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles: Jewish Stories and Music
Features children's CDs of Pearl B., Craig Taubman and Karen Goldman. Includes audio files. The JCLLA site also features lists of age appropriate books.
http://www.jclla.org/audio.htm
Jewish Entertainment Resources Directory, JERD, Events Calendar
Artists listed alphabetically and cross referenced by category and a concert calendar by geographic area. Judy Caplan Ginsburgh does this for a hobby. She has over 100 various artists listings, which will get you started. She includes musicians, actors, dancers, storytellers and comedians among other performing arts entertainers. Performers are encouraged to submit listings to the site.
http://www.jewishentertainment.net
This website is dedicated to Jewish folklore, mainly in Israel, and of many different groups from around the world. The site brings up-to-date news of publications in the field of Jewish folklore. These includes tables of contents, links to academic departments and institutions including the Israel Folktale Archive at University of Haifa, and periodicals in Hebrew and English. Some sets of tables of contents service to journals such as Yuval, of the Jewish Music Research Centre in Jerusalem, and other journals containing articles on dance and Jewish music.
http://www.folklore.org.il/books.htm
Jewish Heritage Online Magazine
A new online magazine about a variety of Jewish topics, giving articles and interviews. Several are by prominent musicologists and writers of Jewish music.
The Jewish Heritage Online Magazine is a "web monthly devoted to Jewish text study, culture and heritage. Sponsored by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (NY)... and is a non-denominational webzine, without religious or political platform."
http://www.jhom.com/music/index.htm
Jewish Music Institute, SOAS, University of London
The Jewish Music Institute is an independent Arts organisation established in March 2000, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London after 18 years of work in the field of Jewish music in the UK. It is dedicated to the celebration, preservation and development of the living heritage of Jewish music for the benefit of all. It is the leading promoter of Jewish music in Britain and has gained recognition on the concert platform, in education and through its information services.
It encourages musicians with practical training and repertoire development and supports learning and scholarship through courses and summer schools at SOAS (KlezFest and a one week Crash Course in Yiddish language and song) and in co-operation with other institutions. JMI forums such as JMI
International Forum for Suppressed Music and JMI Forum for the Promotion of Arab-Jewish Dialogue provide an international focus for study and musicianship. The unique collection of the Doris and Bertie Black Jewish Music Library, housed at JMI, SOAS, is a valuable resource for musicians and researchers. For more information please visit the website:
http://www.jmi.org.uk/
Jewish Music Institute: Hebrew College
The Jewish Music Institute provides training for educators in Jewish music and courses of general interest in Jewish music. Their certificate
in Jewish music is "designed for Jewish educators, cantorial soloists,
ritual directors, lay musicians and all those interested infurthering their
knowledge of Jewish music."
http://www.shamash.org/hc/
Jewish Music Listserv
The Jewish music list has discussions about a wide range of Jewish music topics. Klezmer and Yiddish music are heavily discussed. This URL is a code fragment that represents a short cut that will take you to a site on Shamash called the "ListProc Interface." It will allow you to immediately subscribe to the Jewish Music list.
http://shamash.org/
cgi-bin/MailServ/
listproc2?list=jewish-music&to=listproc@shamash.org
Jewish Music Network
The Jewish Music Network includes online wave files for over 70 songs online with a searchable index by title or artist. Stereo sound is available.
http://www.jewish-music.com
Jewish-Music:
An Overview by Moshe Denburg
Part of the Tzimmes group from Canada. This page attempts to put some historical context to Jewish music. There is a graphic representation that attempts to show musical influences. A brief bibliography of recommended sources is at the end. Not updated frequently.
http://www2.portal.ca/~jsiegel/about_jm.html#Resources
Jewish Music Research Centre
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Jewish National and University Library of Hebrew University on Givat Ram contains the National Sound Archives and several large special collections of Jewish music. Among these are the A.Z. Idelsohn Archives, the recordings collection of Robert Lachmann and recordings of music from Jews around the world.
http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/jmrc.htm
Jewish Music Research Centre Publications
Jewish Music Resource Centre Publications include a Table of Contents of the Yuval series with
an author index, introduction to new publications printed full text, and a listing of CDs
http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/pubs.htm
Jewish Music Resources
The Zamir Chorale of Boston has a website that includes a select bibliography of Jewish music in articles and books. A list of journals of interest is included.
http://www.zamir.org/resources/
Jewish Music Store
Lists Jewish music by category including children, toddler, lullabies and contemporary among other more common categories, such as Israeli, klezmer and holiday.
http://www.jewishstore.com/Music/index.html
Jewish Music Tapes and CD-ROMS
An online catalog of musical recordings can allow purchases through this website. Prices are listed. Many Orthodox CD's are listed, including children's music.
http://www.jerusalembooks.com/tapes.htm
The Jewish Music Web Page
The Tara Publications website. Tara Publications is both a publisher and distributor of Jewish music of all genres. Their website includes access descriptions of scores, books and sound recordings. An extensive list of excerpts from recordings are available using Real Audio. The site includes a collection of brief biographical sketches of artists and composers of materials they are selling. Their page links to websites of active recording and performance artists and groups.
http://www.jewishmusic.com/
Jewish Reggae in Israel
Jewish Reggae lovers have a website in Israel. Lots of commercial play for all kinds of reggae. Take a looksee.
http://www.irielion.com/israel/jewishreggae.html
JewishRock.com
A website devoted to several bands and performers doing rock music with Jewish themes. Stemming from Nashville, Tennessee, this website attempts to present various groups and promote their CDs and concert tours, such as Dan Nichols and the music of E18HTEEN.
http://www.jewishrock.com/
Jewish Torah Audio/Jewish Songs
The Jewish Song online archive contains more than 100 audio clips of
Jewish music online on the Internet. Real Audio is required. Ashkenaz and
Sephardic songs are mounted including songs from rabat Morocco, Shlomo
Carlbach and Chasidic niggunim.
http://www.613.org/music/niggun.html
Jews Brothers Band
A band doing some cafes and Jewish improv in Aukland, New Zealand. Website has some real audio of cuts from their CD.
http://www.jewsbrothers.com
Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble
A 6-member klezmer group organized in 1994 and performing widely throughout Europe.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/simontov/
Jonathan Cahr: La Yeladim
Jonathan Cahar has a new CD of children songs. In Hebrew and English. Some holiday songs.
http://www.cdfreedom.com/jonathancahr/
Jon Madof
Jon Madof is a musician exploring Jewish and Middle Eastern music through Rashanim, a group he founded in 2000. His website includes a biography, schedule of concerts for several groups Jon is involved with, a discography, and contact information.
http://www.jonmadof.com/
Judah Magnes Museum Library and Archives
The Judah Magnes Museum, located in Berkeley, California is open to the public. The Library contains Jewish recorded music and sheet music. Among the collections are a large number of 78 recordings. The Museum asks researchers to phone first and make an appointment at 510-549-6939. They are generally open Sundays--Thursdays, but closed on Jewish and Federal holidays, and are located at 2911 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA 94705.
http://www.jfed.org/magnes/magnes.htm
Judith R. Cohen
Contains information about Dr. Judith R. Cohen of Canada and samples of Sephardic music. She performs and lectures and is a founding member of "Gerineldo, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan Judeo-Spanish ensemble, and is the founder-director of Nova Tradicija, an a capella ensemble specializing in
Balkan singing."
http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/judithc/judith_cohen.htm
Judy Frankel
Judy Frankel's page includes a brief biography, discography, reviews
and a catalog of her recordings. Real Audio samples are available.
http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/artists/jfart.html
Tzipora Jochsberger
Wrote A Harvest of Jewish Song with Vevel Pasternak. Founded the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center in New York. Born in Germany in 1920.
Nurit Jugend
Israeli composer, primarily of small chamber works. Born in Haifa, Israel in 1972.Also known as Karen Jugend. Studied composition in Israel, Germany, France and Italy. Brief bio with photo at Israel Music Center, which has published her music.