music

CD Re-release Explores Mixing of Latin Music and Jewish Music

August 24, 2005

From Jewish Telegraphic Agency

by HEATHER ROBINSON

August 24, 2005

In 1959, when Irving Fields was playing piano at the Sherry Biltmore Hotel in Boston, two couples approached him with competing requests.

“One couple requested, ‘I Love You Much Too Much,’ a nice Jewish song,” Fields...

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Almost By Accident, Jazz Pianist Helped Spark Musical Fusion Craze

August 24, 2005

From Jewish Telegraphic Agency

by HEATHER ROBINSON

August 24,2005

The CD of “Bagels and Bongos” features an interview with 90-year-old pianist Irving Fields, who still plays six nights a week at a Manhattan nightclub.

The liner notes describe Fields’ life story as one “of cultural...

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