Artist: Warren Byrd & David Chevan Title: This Is The Afro-Semitic Experience Category: Jazz Klezmer

Order #: 01191 What infectious, wonderful jazz! Opening with an "Eliyahu Hanavi" that will get everyone bopping at your next Havdalah, and continuing with a more thoughtful, but still infectiously cheerful "Tashlikh," this new outing by David Chevan and Warren Byrd, this time accompanied by a larger band, is a delight. Byrd and Chevan have created an unusual, always listenable, and sometimes more profound space in recent years by reworking sacred song from both Black and Jewish traditions in jazz form.....This album is compelling. The music isn't pushing the edges of jazz; rather, it is using jazz to bring out the commonality of spirituality in music from two traditions, and then some. The result is excellent, sometimes danceable, always listenable and warming music....The album ending, "Waters of Babylon," with Stacy Phillips' wonderful resonator guitar, is as quietly sublime as the opener is infectiously up-and-moving. This is definitely a grounded album, but one also backed up by a wonderful sense of swinging jazz. Review by Ari Davidow, 'The Klezmer Shack'

Tracks:
1.   Eliyahu Hanavi
2.   Tashlikh
3.   Sha shtil
4.   Better GerHit In Your Soul
5.   Nefesh
6.   Aalafiya/Shir LeShalom
7.   Water From An Ancient Well
8.   Waters Of Babylon