★★★★★
Bluegrass is the starting point for a high-spirited, eclectic romp headed up by mandolinist/clarinetist Statman and that includes solid contributions from Byron Berline, Bela Fleck and Ricky Skaggs. Before it's over Statman's crew will embrace jazz, blues, country and klezmer. Jazz frequently finds its way into Statman's mandolin solos and the ensemble's casual crossing of genre lines is a natural-sounding affair overall...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2011-11-14
★★★★★
Bluegrass is the starting point for a high-spirited, eclectic romp headed up by mandolinist/clarinetist Statman and that includes solid contributions from Byron Berline, Bela Fleck and Ricky Skaggs. Before it's over Statman's crew will embrace jazz, blues, country and klezmer. Jazz frequently finds its way into Statman's mandolin solos and the ensemble's casual crossing of genre lines is a natural-sounding affair overall...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2011-11-10
★★★★★
Through three decades of dedication, Andy Statman has reached a high plane. The youthful exuberance of discovery has been supplanted by mature enlightenment and musical self-realization. Coltrane comes to mind as another artist whose spiritual development became so inextricably intertwined with his music that he and his art became one. As a clarinetist and interpreter of traditional Chassidic melodies, Statman is clearly in a modern Jewish music class by himself...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Andy Statman East Flatbush Blues Shefa 2006 Andy Statman Awakening from Above Shefa 2006 There is no one quite like Andy Statman. A virtuoso clarinetist and mandolin player, he deftly navigates the seemingly incongruent musical landscapes of jazz, bluegrass and Chassidic music. On East Flatbush Blues, Statman lets his mandolin take center stage...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Queens native Andy Statman comes from a Jewish musical family, but he first made his mark in bluegrass, working with the diverse likes of David Bromberg, Vassar Clements, Bob Dylan, Bela Fleck, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Trischka, and Itzhak Perlman, while exploring a range of musics from jazz, European classical, Balkan, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Latin and African-American folk roots...
- www.globalrhythm.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
One of the originators of the Klezmer Revival, Andy Statman is one of the most important figures in modern Jewish Music. A talented instrumentalist, composer and bandleader, his recent music looks out from the traditional towards a more modern Jewish sound. Filled with lyricism and spirituality, these powerful recordings from his private archives show him at a creative peak...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Recorded and released at the same time as his bluegrass/Americana album East Flatbush Blues, on which he plays primarily mandolin, Awakening from Above showcases the other side of Andy Statman. Here he performs on the clarinet, save for one mandolin piece, "Forshpiel (Improvisation)," and virtually all of the music contained herein comes from the deeply religious canon of the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Veteran klezmer musician Andy Statman, who inherited a clarinet from klezmer legend Dave Tarras, leaves the past behind on a series of John Coltrane-inflected voyages to the dark, mystical heart of Yiddish music. Featured are cosmic jazz interpretations of devotional music (deveykus niggum), table-songs (tisch niggunim), and traditonal dances (rikkudim). While most of the material unfurls slowly, a pair of cuts with guesting new-grass banjo player Bela Fleck absolutely sparkle...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
A good album featuring Kenny Kosak, Russ Barenberg, Matt Glaser, and others.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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