Naftule's Dream concert in Boston - 2/26 (7pm)

[jimgray]

Featuring Jim Gray on the tuba, this experimental group defies definition, though some of our friends (below) have tried.
Please join us for a liberating evening of rambunctious music: this Sunday (2/26, 7pm) at The Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.

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"The most remarkably flexible band of musical renegades to come along since John Zorn's Naked City."
Bill Milkowski,
JazzTimes

"(They) stretch the limits of densely composed and then freely jammed-out music of deep emotional resonance. It's a crazy-*** circus one minute, a funeral procession another, and everything in between the rest of the time."
Richard Gehr,
The Village Voice

"Think sophisticated little-big-band orchestrators like Charles Mingus and Carla Bley applying themselves to Jewish music."
The Boston Phoenix

"It's a remarkable balancing act of discipline and unabashed noise, technical brilliance and a completely contrary punk/no-wave aesthetic... Imagine Albert Mangelsdorf, Ivo Papasov, Jimi Hendrix, and Ran Blake jamming with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at a Hassidic wedding and you'll get a piece of the idiosyncratic picture here."
Bill Milkowski,
JazzTimes

For a preview, please check out samples from some of our recordings at http://www.naftulesdream.com" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

thanks!
Jim

[Chuck Jackson]

Featuring Jim Gray on the tuba, this experimental group defies definition

I vote for "Punk Klezmer".

Seriously everyone, if you have heard this radical re-invention of this idiom, not only are you missing out on some amazingly complex and hard driving music, but you are missing out on some FRICKIN' GREAT tuba playing from Jim.

Buy all of their cd's, YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY!!!

Chuck" a fan"Jackson

[jimgray]

Sweet - thanks for the love, Chuck!
I will let you know the next time we are in your part of the country and we'll try to post some live audio/video.

Also - keep your ears out for a new recording, slated for later this year.

cheers-
Jim