''Shmutsige Magnaten'' (subtitled ''Coleman Plays Gebirtig'') is a live solo album by pianist

Anthony Coleman Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on '' Cobra'', ''Kristallnacht'', ''The Big Gundown'', ''Archery'', and ''Spillane'' and helped push modern Jewish music in ...

performing the songs of

Mordechai Gebirtig Mordechai Gebirtig ( yi, מרדכי געבירטיג), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Polish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during t ...

recorded in Poland and released on the

Tzadik Tzadik ( he, צַדִּיק , "righteous ne, also ''zadik'', ''ṣaddîq'' or ''sadiq''; pl. ''tzadikim'' ''ṣadiqim'') is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The ...

label in 2006.Tzadik catalogue
accessed January 16, 2014

Reception

In his review for

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, Thom Jurek states "Coleman is a master, and if you're at all interested either in Yiddish music or solo piano recordings that transcend jazz, blues, and other folk forms, let ''Shmutsige Magnaten'' be it".

Track listing

''All compositions by Mordechai Gebirtig except as indicated'' # "Mayn Yovl" – 5:00 # "Mamenyu an Eytse" – 4:27 # "Kartofl Zup mit Shvamen" – 8:30 # "Avreml der Marvikher" – 8:54 # "Oy Briderl, l'Chaim" – 7:33 # "

S'brent Es brent ( "It's burning", also known as ''undzer shtetl brent'' "our town is burning", in Hebrew translation ) is a Yiddish poem–song written in 1936 by Mordechai Gebirtig. Although the poem is generally said to have been written in response t ...

" – 6:00 # "Hulyet, Hulyet, Kinderlekh" – 2:54 # "S'Izs Gut" – 4:13 # "Minuten Fun Betochen/Minuten Fun Yiesh" (Gebirtig, Coleman) – 5:46 # "Oreme Shnayderlekh" – 8:15

Personnel

– piano, vocals

References

{{Authority control Tzadik Records live albums Anthony Coleman albums 2006 albums