Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.The hitherto unexplored common ground between Jewish and Cuban music is covered very effectively in this Canadian project by trumpeter and composer Buchbinder with pianist Hilario Duran and a joint jazz and Afro-Cuban ensemble. As expected, there's lots of Arabic, Gypsy and Sephardic-sounding elements, reflecting points of origin in the Iberian peninsula, mixed with terrific habanera rhythms, Latin percussion and mambo dance forms. While a blurb warns that the result is as far from Fiddler on the Roof meets Desi Arnaz as you can get, that's actually when it sounds the best, as "Oy Vey!" becomes "Ole!".
Download this 'Lailadance': where mambo meets a soulful klezmer lament
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments