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Rabbinical School Dropouts

A ten-piece outfit from Long Beach and San Diego, the Rabbinical School Dropouts play Jewish soul music (klezmer) combined with an avant-garde jazz twist. Music critics have described them as: an “esoteric space klezmer ensemble,” “psycho klez,” “Frank Zappa and Dr. Seuss intersect[ing] … [with] Woody Allen and Howard Stern”, and “[avant-garde pioneer] Sun Ra and Frank Zappa at Woody Harrelson’s backyard BBQ.”1 I was really looking for info about Zadok, David’s priest, when I discovered these guys. I got turned on to klezmer when I first heard the Klezmatics2, then discovered a collaboration3 between them and Itzhak Perlman4, who is my all time favorite violinist. Btw, check out a young Perlman perfomance. I attended a few Bar Mitzvahs in my youth. I also attended a couple of Zappa concerts long ago. I’ve always been a fan of Dr. Seuss and even kind of enjoy Sun Ra a little bit. So I was ready for the Rabbinical School Dropouts.5 Listen here and here.

  1. http://www.juddhandler.com/articles/rsdo.php ↩
  2. http://www.klezmatics.com/ ↩
  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmFgQ9fM94 ↩
  4. http://www.myspace.com/perlmanitzhak ↩
  5. http://www.juddhandler.com/articles/rsdo.php

    http://www.ajlmagazine.com/content/112005/music-fiddler.html

    http://kfarcenter.com/booking/2006/03/30/rabbinical-school-dropouts/ ↩

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 5:47 pm by Stu Heiss and is filed under Music, Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  • Laurel March 4, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH to be COMPLETED Jewish, is to BE!!
    LOL!

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