The KlezKamp Store: Epes Center

At KlezKamp, when someone is looking for books, T-shirts, CDs or when they want to know where or what or if they need something ("epes") they come to our aptly named "Epes Center." Here online, we offer you our virtual "Epes Center," and hope you too, will find what you're looking for.

PLEASE NOTE: All out of country orders require additional postage. Please contact us for a quote before ordering.

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The Tradition Lives: Yiddish-Moldavian Music of German Goldenshteyn – $15

For his 2006 Living Traditions recording (LTD 1803), the late Moldavian Jewish clarinetist German Goldenshteyn prepared more music than could fit onto one disc. Here are the tunes not used on that CD – plus a number he chose for a prospective Volume Two – played by some of his most devoted admirers. more>>

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Peter Sokolow: A Living Tradition – $15

As a tribute to the great masters of klezmer music from whom he drew inspiration, Pete Sokolow and co-producer/engineer Ken Maltz have crafted a deeply moving retrospective of some of the greatest Yiddish players of the 20th century. With Pete Sokolow playing all the instruments, he expertly invokes the styles and repertoires of Dave Tarras, Paul Pincus, Sid Beckerman and Maxie Epstein and reminds us why they – and he – enjoy their tremendous renown. more>>

Elaine Hoffman Watts: A Living Tradition – $15

Over four days at the 2007 KlezKamp, master percussionist Elaine Hoffman Watts, together with a hand-picked orchestra of today’s greatest Yiddish musicians, recorded some of the music learned over a lifetime via her illustrious klezmer family: music she is passing on to a new and enthusiastic generation. more>>

Cantors, Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 – $25 + $2 additional shipping

Gleaned from the nearly 9,000 Yiddish 78s in the collection of Sherry Mayrent, this historic anthology gives the listener a sweeping soundscape of the music made by and for the Yiddish speaking community from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Cantorials, klezmer dance tunes, Yiddish vaudeville skits, and Yiddish theater songs abound in this anthology of 73 tracks — 46 of them never before reissued — a milestone in the examination of the Yiddish cultural renaissance at the height of its powers. With notes by Sherry Mayrent and Henry Sapoznik and digital remastering by Grammy winning producer Christopher King, the 76 page illustrated booklet was designed by award winning designer Susan Archie. Track list

Ray Musiker: A Living Tradition – $15

As a scion of the prestigious Musiker family, clarinetist Ray Musiker has been central to some of the most important moments in 20th century Yiddish-American music. Here, accompanied by a handpicked ensemble of today's finest klezmer players, Ray Musiker offers a thrilling tour of the music he learned and the music he created. more>>

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Zvee Scooler "Der Grammeister" – $15

From the 1930s until his death in 1985, Zvee Scooler (aka "Der Grammeister") thrilled tens of thousands of WEVD radio listeners with his pithy, exciting and timely verse.  Here, reissued for the first time, are six of Scooler's most memorable performances -- plus a Bonus Track- which best exemplify the Golden Age of Yiddish radio. Track list

For C Instruments

From the Repertoire of German Goldenshteyn - FoR C Instruments– $25

A collection of transcriptions of 100 bulgars, freylakhs, hongas, khosidls and zhokuls from German Goldenshteyn's unique repertoire.  Includes all the melodies on the German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition CD.  For C instruments.

For Bb Instruments

From the Repertoire of German Goldenshteyn - For B Flat Instruments– $25

A collection of transcriptions of 100 bulgars, freylakhs, hongas, khosidls and zhokuls from German Goldenshteyn's unique repertoire.  Includes all the melodies on the German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition CD.  For Bb instruments.

German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition – $15

Over four days at the 2005 KlezKamp, master Moldavian klezmer clarinetist German Goldenshteyn, together with a hand-picked rhythm section of today’s greatest Yiddish musicians, sat down and recorded 20 tunes from his staggering collection of over 800 bulgars, freylakhs, horas, khosidls and sirbas. more>>

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KlezKamp 2006:  German Goldenshteyn Memorial Concert  December 25, 2006   Two CDs $20

Live recording of a very special concert by the musicians featured on German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition, the CD recorded at KlezKamp 2005:  Aaron Alexander, Josh Horowitz, Mark Rubin, Hank Sapoznik, Cookie Segelstein and Susan Watts, under the direction of Alex Kontorovich, joined later by other KlezKamp faculty.

KlezKamp 2006:  Lecture by Y.Y. Jacobson, editor of the Algeimeiner Journal  $10

Recording of the provocative and well-received talk at KlezKamp 2006 by Y.Y. Jacobson, editor of the Hasidic Yiddish weekly newspaper the Algemeiner Journal, on the relationship of the Hasidic and secular Jewish worlds to Yiddish language and culture and of those worlds to each other.

2004 STAFF CONCERT $15 (2 CDs)

It's your front row seat at this year's KlezKamp Staff concert where the world's greatest performers play for the world's greatest audience. Track list

LIVE FROM KLEZKAMP! The Staff Concerts 1985-2003
$25 (2-CD set)

To celebrate 20 seasons of preserving and celebrating Yiddish culture, Living Traditions digs into the audio vaults to retrieve some of the peak moments of the Yiddish cultural renaissance captured live at KlezKamp. Track list

Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World– $15

A companion issue to Henry Sapoznik's book "Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World to Our World" (Schirmer Books), the CD is a chronological anthology of Yiddish recordings from 1912-1997 which offers an overview of the diversity, audacity and enthusiasm that was Yiddish popular culture at its height, decline and current revitalization. Track list

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The Compleat Klezmer (book) – $30

This book is the DEFINITIVE anthology by the world's foremost authorities on klezmer music. Features an in-depth musical analysis, discography, 33 annotated melodies, historical background, annotations, resources, bibliography and extensive instruction on klezmer music. A MUST for Klezmer fans.

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HANK SAPOZNIK & THE YOUNGERS OF ZION – $15

Hank Sapoznik and The Youngers of Zion create an intimate, exciting salon of old time Yiddish music — hot fiddle tunes, forgotten ballads, introspective instrumentals and snappy Second Avenue vaudeville songs — all performed with an irresistible immediacy evoking the coziness of the parlor and the raucousness of the dance floor. Deeply rooted in traditional Yiddish music, the Youngers of Zion make it their own, playing with an easy sense of ownership and understated virtuosity. Track list

THE YIDDISH RADIO PROJECT – $25 (2-CD set)

The Peabody award-winning NPR series features all ten Yiddish Radio Project stories, plus four bonus tracks. A beautiful twenty-page booklet with historic photos and an essay by Henry Sapoznik about the making of the project is also included. Track list

MUSIC FROM THE YIDDISH RADIO PROJECT – $15

The Yiddish Radio Project is the soundtrack companion CD for the 10 part NPR radio series celebrating the "golden age" of Yiddish Radio in America (1930 - 1955). This CD is a mixture of swing, klezmer, Jewish songs, and campy commercials with a Yiddish twist. Track list

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DI GRINE KATSHKE – $15

Out of stock. MP3's of the tracks are available at CDbaby.com.

A wonderful collection of children's songs about animals. The songs are sung in Yiddish by Paula Teitelbaum and Lorin Sklamberg (of the Klezmatics), joined by other world-class klezmer musicians Lauren Brody, Jeff Warschauer, Adrienne Cooper, Henry Sapoznik and Frank London. Track list     more info>>

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KLEZMER PLUS! – $15

Sid Beckerman, probably the closest link to the European clarinet tradition of all his contemporaries, springs from a family of accomplished professional musicians. Sid's repertory is one of the largest of any Jewish musician performing today. Tenor saxophonist Howie Leess had a long and distinguished career in Jewish and American music. He studied with Sid's father, played in various big bands in the early '40s, and after the war continued to build on his fine reputation as a strong all-around reedman among traditional Jewish klezmer players, the growing Hasidic communities of post war Brooklyn. Track list

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KLEZMER PIONEERS 1905-1952 – $25 (2-CD SET)

The rare recordings featured in this collection are a real link with a vibrant tradition of a previous generation. With no sense of "posterity" or "preservation," those early musicians simply played what they hoped their community wanted to hear. What for the recording companies was a disposable commodity to be sold in an ethnic market has, in the intervening years, emerged as an historic matrix of culture and tradition which until recently existed mainly in memory. The revival of interest in the study and performance of klezmer music in the last two decades means that these recordings, made by artists born in the 19th century who recorded in the 20th, will continue to have great meaning well into the 21st. Track list

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MYSTERIES OF THE SABBATH: Classic Cantorial Recordings 1907-1947 – $15

This compilation of historical masterpieces by 16 renowned Jewish cantors eloquently communicates the rare beauty and power of one of the world’s strongest and most moving musical traditions. A 36-page booklet offers in-depth background and biographical information as well as countless rare historical photos. Track list

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FROM AVENUE A TO THE GREAT WHITE WAY – $25 (2-CD SET)

At the turn of the 20th century in New York City, Yiddish theater came of age in the playhouses of the Lower East Side. This creative surge was captured by Columbia Records, whose catalog not only chronicled Menashe Skulnik and Peisachke Burstein, Molly Picon and Yoselle Rosenblatt, Nellie Casman and David Medoff, but also witnessed the rise of Fannie Brice, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, and eventually Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, and even Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane. They all drew righteously from the Yiddish music scene as it spread from Avenue A to the Great White Way. Track list

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