THE AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE

With its highly accessible ethnic world music mix and ability to get an audience on its feet, the Afro-Semitic Experience is redefining the jazz concert. This seven-piece band is beyond category. Whether playing gospel, klezmer, nigunim, spirituals or swing, the Afro-Semitic Experience rocks the room with its intricate, infectious melodies and solid grooves. It’s multi-cultural soul. Afro-Semitic Experience concerts are celebrations: the band plays great music, tells stories and offers a positive and meaningful message: unity in the community. Co-founded by African-American jazz pianist Warren Byrd and Jewish-American jazz bassist David Chevan in 1998, the ASE has shared its music at concerts, workshops and worship services across the United States, Canada and Europe. Venues include the Amsterdam Festival of Jewish Music, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Detroit Festival of Jewish Music, Portland Jazz Festival, New York Noise Festival, Eldridge Street Synagogue and Paris Festival of Jewish Culture. The band has worked read more...