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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/39588/full/39588/mazel-tov-mis-amigos/ <br /><br /> <b>Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos</b> <br /> Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | by emily savage <br /><br /><br /> <p><img alt="mazeltovcover_300" height="297" src="http://www.jweekly.com/images/uploads/blog_art/0809/mazeltovcover_300.jpg" title="mazeltovcover_300" width="300" />  This past week nonprofit Jewish-musical-gem-finding juggernaut <a href="http://www.idelsohnsociety.com/" target="_blank">The Idelsohn Society </a>re-released Juan Calle and His Latin Lantzmen's 1961 Jewish-Latin mambo album "Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos."  And the album will be performed in its entirety at Lincoln Center this Sunday, Aug. 23. The one-shot concert is free, so if you happen to be in the NYC area, I'd highly suggest stopping by. I however will be relegated to listening to the album on my Ipod speeding through San Francisco's Financial District on my way to the j. But I digress.</p> <p><a href="http://www.idelsohnsociety.com/products.html" target="_blank">"Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos,"</a> digitally re-mastered for the re-release, interprets Yiddish theater classics through the Latin dance styles of the late 1950s, early 1960s. It was actually part of a whole Jewish-Latin explosion that I sadly knew nothing about until I read Josh Kun's excellent encylopedia Jewmusica: “And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost.” Full Disclosure: Kun is part of the <a href="http://www.idelsohnsociety.com/" target="_blank">Idelsohn Society</a> and wrote the liner notes for this re-release.</p> <p>The album features 11 songs including Herman Yablokoff's "Papiroseen," “Yossel, Yossel”  and that old Jewy standby “Havah Nagila,” re-imagined in full mambo swing. Normally I'm not such a fan of "fusion" but there's something about the mid-century Jewish-Latin combo that really works for me. I guess it's that whole bagels and bongos vibe that draws me in. Percussion and carbs, you dig?</p> <p> </p>

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