Two of the leading contemporary American performers of Jewish klezmer music, tsimbl player (cimbalom/hammered dulcimer) Pete Rushefsky and fiddle virtuoso Jake Shulman-Ment perform a lively program of music rooted in the Eastern European klezmer tradition. The earliest European recordings of klezmer from the first decade of the 20th century present the centuries-old pairing of tsimbl - hammered dulcimer - and violin. In this recording, Rushefsky and Shulman-Ment prove themselves to be masters of the old sounds and innovators in creating a new contemporary performance system for the music - Concert Form Klezmer. Inspired by Eastern classical music systems, such as the Ottoman fasil and Central Asian shash maqam, Concert Form Klezmer expands the expressive possibilities of klezmer music and provides a pathway for musicians to create performances that develop extended musical narratives. Concert Form Klezmer develops a large-scale compositional ...