October 7, 2008

Boichek Ah Um

By: David Donadio

Nat Hentoff has a solid piece here on the Afro-Semitic Experience, a group that draws on black and Jewish musical traditions, playing jazz, klezmer, gospel and Afro-Cuban music. Hentoff recounts a wonderful conversation he had with Charles Mingus about the moment they first knew they could never be without music.