New Klezmer Trio - 1995 - Melt Zonk Rewire

New Klezmer Trio

1995

Melt Zonk Rewire

01. Gas Nine

02. Sarcophagous

03. The Haunt

04. Thermoglyphics

05. The Chant

06. We Got There

07. Feedback Doina

08. Freilakh Nakht

09. Hypothetical

10. The Shot

11. Distiller

12. Phrases

13. Fourth Floor

14. Starting Place

Ben Goldberg Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Fender Reverb Clarinet

Dan Seamans Bass

Kenny Wollesen Drums

Melt Zonk Rewire , the second album by the California-based New Klezmer Trio, presents avant garde reinterpretations of traditional tunes and new compositions expanding the klezmer tradition.

Leader Ben Goldberg studied with jazz luminaries Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano, and has performed and recorded with George Lewis, Cecil Taylor, Bobby Bradford, John Zorn's Masada, Andrew Hill, Mark Dresser, Roswell Rudd, the ROVA Sax Quartet, John Tchicai, Phil Haynes, Alvin Curran, Eugene Chadbourne, and was the featured soloist with Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb's New York Jazz Composers Orchestra at the 1994 San Francisco Jazz Festival. His clarinet can be heard on the upcoming recording by the Charlie Hunter Trio on Blue Note.