Naftule brandwein biography of michael jordan

Austrian-born Jewish American musician

Musical artist

Naftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, (Yiddish: נפתלי בראַנדװײַן, &#;) was an Austrian-born Jewish AmericanKlezmer musician, clarinetist, bandleader and recording artist active from the s to the s.

Along with Dave Tarras, he is considered to be among the top klezmer musicians of the twentieth century, and has a continuing influence on musicians in the genre a century later.^[1][2][3] Along with Tarras and other contemporaries like Israel J.

Hochman, Max Leibowitz and Harry Kandel, he also helped forge the new American klezmer sound of the early twentieth century, which gradually gravitated towards a sophisticated big-band sound.^[4][5][6]

Biography

Early life

Brandwein was born on September 20, , in Przemyslany, Austro-HungarianGalicia (now Ukraine).^[7] He was born into a dynasty of klezmer musicians, part of the StretinerHasi