Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new emerging generation of klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. He has co-founded, performed, and recorded internationally since the age of fourteen with groups including Romashka, MetróFolk, the Klezminors, the Village Klezmer Quintet, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Fleytmuzik, Di Naye Kapelye, Életfa Hungarian Folk Band, and Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar. He has toured and concertized with such luminaries as David Krakauer, Frank London, Duncan Sheik, Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer, Adrienne Cooper, and many others. Jake has created, directed, and performed music for a number of theater pieces, including several shows with director and artist Jenny Romaine of Great Small Works. He co-founded and regularly performs at “Tantshoyz,” the monthly Yiddish dance party at Manhattan's JCC, sponsored by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance. His wide range of influences includes klezmer, classical, Romanian, Hungarian, Gypsy, and Greek. An internationally in-demand teacher, Jake has been a faculty member of New York's esteemed Henry Street Settlement, KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Klezmer Paris, and Yiddish Summer Weimar. An avid traveler, Jake has made several extended journeys to collect, study, perform, and document traditional folk music in Hungary, Romania, and Greece.
In A Redele, his debut solo album, Shulman-Ment displays a remarkable versatility as violinist, composer, improvisor, arranger, bandleader, and producer, while consistently remaining true to his deep roots in traditional Jewish music. Also featured on the album are 3 vocal pieces, one sung by Shulman-Ment, the other two by rising star Yiddish singer Benjy Fox-Rosen.
Artists on this recording are:
Jake Shulman-Ment – violin, vocals
Benjy Fox-Rosen – bass, vocals
Ben Holmes – trumpet
Art Bailey – accordion
Pete Rushefsky – tsimbl
Alexander Fedoriouk – concert cimbalom
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/jakeshulmanment
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