The New York Gypsy All-Stars band will bring their unique blend of jazz-inflected Gypsy music to Oberlin College’s Cat in The Cream coffeehouse on Thursday, December 2 at 8 pm. Admission is free.
Time Out New York calls clarinetist and bandleader Ismail Lumanovski “an adventurous, modern-minded frontman, who leads his band through a varied terrain of Balkan, Turkish and Romani selections, spiked with jazz and Western styles.”
Their music is rooted in the rich cultural background of its members, including the use of traditional instruments like the kanun (a 79-string plucked zither) and doumbek (an hourglass-shaped hand drum). Packed with playful improvisation and infectious dance rhythms, their music draws in equal measure from the group’s Eastern European heritage as well as Western jazz, rock, and funk music.
The Cat in The Cream
180 West Lorain Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
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