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1991 studio album by New Klezmer Trio
Masks and Faces
Studio album by New Klezmer Trio
Released1991
RecordedJune 1990, Music Annex, Menlo Park, California
GenreJazz, Klezmer
Length53:17
LabelNine Winds NWCD 0144
Tzadik TZ 7112
ProducerNew Klezmer Trio
New Klezmer Trio chronology
Masks and Faces
(1991) 		Melt Zonk Rewire
(1995)
Ben Goldberg chronology
Masks and Faces
(1991) 		The Relative Value of Things
(1992)

Masks and Faces is the debut album by the New Klezmer Trio, Ben Goldberg - clarinet, Dan Seamans - bass, and Kenny Wollesen - drums, which was originally released on the Nine Winds label in 1991 and re-released on the Tzadik label in 1996.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic

In her review for Allmusic, Joslyn Layne observed "this raucous, bursting, and somewhat disjointed music sustains a groove that's not so hard to hang on to. Almost an hour in length, New Klezmer Trio's first release ebbs and flows, relentlessly packed with high quality tunes".

Track listing

All compositions by Ben Goldberg except as indicated

  1. "Cardboard Factory" - 5:06
  2. "Hot and Cold" (Traditional) - 3:44
  3. "Rebbe's Meal" (Traditional) - 7:36
  4. "Up" (Dan Seamans) - 4:19
  5. "Washing Machine Song" (Traditional) - 2:59
  6. "Galicain" (Sam Beckerman) - 5:18
  7. "Masks and Faces" - 6:33
  8. "Haphazard" (Itzikl Kramtweiss) - 4:03
  9. "Bitonal Song" (Kramtweiss) - 3:06
  10. "The Gate" - 10:33

Personnel

References

  1. Tzadik catalogue accessed January 10, 2014
  2. ^ Layne, Joslyn. New Klezmer Trio – Masks and Faces > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
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