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Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
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The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band is a klezmer band based in Chicago. Founded in 1983, the band combines dance music, folk songs, theater medleys, and Yiddish pop music from the 1930s to the 1950s, with traditional Jewish music. They have performed across America, and in European cities including London, Munich, Vienna, Amsterdam, Enschede and The Hague. In 2004, the band's 2002 CD Old Roots, New World was voted Best Jewish/Hebrew/Klezmer Album by the Indie Just Plain Folks 2004 music awards. Band members *Lori Lippitz (band leader, vocals and guitar) *Alex Koffman (arranger and musical director, violin) *Kimber Leigh Nussbaum (vocals) *Bibi Marcell (vocals) *Donald Jacobs (clarinet) *Shelley Yoelin (saxophone, clarinet and flute) *Jeff Jeziorski (clarinet) *Ralph Wilder (clarinet, saxophone and flute) *Gail Mangurten (piano) *Bob Samborski (trombone) *Ivo Braun (trumpet) *Mark Ponarovsky (percussion) *Jim Cox (bass) *Audrey Morrison (trombone) *Steven Lee Weintraub (traditional Jewish dance master) Discography *1986 - Maxwell St. Days (Global Village Music) *1994 - The European recording Jiddisches Lied & Klezmer 4th Internationales Festival *1996 - You Should Be So Lucky! (Shanachie Entertainment) *1997 - The MATZOrena (cassette single) (KlezDance Productions) *2000 - Sweet Early Years (Klezmer Music Foundation, Inc.) *2002 - Old Roots, New World (Shanachie Entertainment) 
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