By examining the nascent “jazz” offerings of pioneering performances of recording klezmorim, such as Harry Kandel, Dave Tarras, Harry Raderman and Sammy Musiker, among others, Sapoznik shows how that first generation took to jazz as both a social and musical gateway to speed up and encourage their – and their audience’s — acculturation in transition from old world to new.

Henry H. Sapoznik is an award winning producer, musicologist and performer and writer in the fields of traditional and popular Yiddish and American music and culture.

Sapoznik, a native Yiddish speaker and child of Holocaust survivors, is one of the founders of the klezmer revival and a five time Grammy nominated producer, having reissued over 30 anthologies of Yiddish, jazz, old time music, ragtime, blues, Italian, klezmer, swing and cantorial, bluegrass 78s and cylinders.