When I play, I like the top of the piano to sound like flutes or clarinets and the bottom part like a trombone... To completely capture the career of pianist, composer, and arranger Irving Fields is a ...
The 12 tunes on Oy Vey! Ole! are joyous junctures; it's a place where Afro-Cuban rhythms, traditional klezmer/Hebraic melodies, pop immediacy and economy, and jazz-enriched élan coalesce into ...
John Zorn's ever-growing Masada cottage industry continues with another reinterpretation of the songbook, this time a rock version in the hands of Jon Madof's excellent trio Rashanim. Last month ...
At 92 years of age, Irving Fields is newly hip -- and he has a new hip, too. The veteran musician scored a hit in 1959 when he combined Jewish melodies with Latin rhythms on the album "Bagels and ...
Pianist and composer Irving Fields passed away this August at the age of 101. Fields talked to Latino USA in April, 2014, and shared with us his... Copyright 2023 NPR ...