© J. Adrian Wylie

Into the Freylakh

Cutting edge

by Sandor Slomovits

posted 3/1/2003

It's avant-jazz night at the Firefly, so what is the klezmer band Into the Freylakh doing on stage? Isn't klezmer, with its roots in medieval Eastern Europe, the music my great-grandparents probably danced to at their wedding in the old country? Doesn't the intricately ornamented melody spinning out of bandleader Bryan Pardo's clarinet echo the

Arts and Entertainment reviews and news.