Paul Brody

Trumpeter, composer, and arranger Paul Brody’s music combines the formal buildings and melodic frameworks of klezmer and traditional folk music using the independence and aural wanderlust of jazz and experimental music. Originally from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Brody is really a graduate of Boston College or university, where he researched music and majored in trumpet and structure; he later do his graduate just work at the New Britain Conservatory, where he joined up with the Klezmer Conservatory Band. As an accompanist, Brody spent some time working with an extraordinary variety of music artists, which range from Barry Light, the Supremes, and Shirley Bassey to Einsturzende Neubauten, Michael Alpert, and John Zorn, the last mentioned of whom provides praised the performer, stating “Brody can be forging a fresh Jewish jazz for the 21st hundred years.” Since relocating to Berlin within the 1990s, Brody is a leader/principal person in three groupings. Sadawi, a quintet focusing on klezmer and jazz, possess released many acclaimed albums for John Zorn’s Tzadik Information label. The DetoNation Orchestra, an ensemble that will take folk melodies and reshapes them through prisms of jazz, pop, and avant-garde, make use of both acoustic and digital instruments and also have released an record for the NRW Jazz label. And Tango Gadget certainly are a quartet getting a lively improvisational method of klezmer on the two albums for Laika Information.