Nigun News

Mike Gerber - Jazz Jews

Mike Gerber's book titled Jazz Jews just got published recently by Five Leaves Publications. It is a nice overview of the last decade and mentions thousands of musicians with jewish roots. Among people like Michael Brecker, Terry Gibbs, Benny Goodman, Ben Perowsky, Adam Rogers, Gerber also mentions the band led by András Párniczky: Nigun. You can read a short part of the book about Nigun by clicking on the link here: Nigun

Nigun will perform featuring Steven Bernstein and Matt Darriau!

Sex Mob's Grammy winner trumpeter Steven Bernstein (USA) and Klezmatics' Grammy winner multi-reed player Matt Darriau (USA) are touring together April 2010. The main motivation is Hungary's top-notch klezmer jazz band, Nigun which invited these two magnificent artists to play together.

Matt Darriau has recorded His album recently together with Nigun band (to be released very soon). Mr. Darriau's background is deeply rooted in the practice of Balkan, Klezmer and Celtic folk idioms. He has been awarded grants and commisions from the NEA, Chamber Music America (2005) and is a regular in New York’s downtown jazz scene.

Steven Bernstein has played trumpet with a diverse group of artists including Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt, David Murray, Sting, Medeski Martin and Wood, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Don Byron. Awards include Downbeat critics poll 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 and Jazz Journalists Association 2003. His band Sex Mob has been together since 1995 touring the world and has had their music featured on MTV, Saturday Night Live and NPR.

The well-known and the newest compositions of Andras Parniczky will be arranged for quintet as we never heard before. The concerts will take place at MUPA and Sargfabrik.

New site and a few new tunes available.

We liked the old site but it was time to move on and come up with something that matches today's design trends and requirements.
A few things are not available yet and the whole project has to go through some more tailoring but everything should be fine soon.
Slightly smaller updates are to be expected in the near future.

We changed the way how the "Music" section works so now you can listen to a 5-7 minute excerpt of each of the albums.
There are 3 new tracks available on the Nigun MySpace page featuring Matt Darriau on various wind instruments and Miklos Lukacs on cimbalom. You may wish to check out.

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