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Paul Shapiro is a jazz, world, and klezmer saxophonist from New York City . Career. From 1983 to 2007 Shapiro recorded eight albums, toured, and frequently played tenor saxophone in New York City with the Microscopic Septet. [1]
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On his new album, "Essen" (Tzadik), Shapiro explores the cultural mash-up that occurred in American popular music when Jewish music -- Yiddish theater songs, vaudeville tunes, klezmer songs and novelties -- met blues, jazz, rhythm 'n' blues and swing.
“Paul Shapiro’s Midnight Minyan could well stand as one of the supreme achievements of creative, modern Jewish jazz.” Seth Rogovoy Berkshire Jewish Voice “Shapiro leads an outstanding sextet through some Jewish classics. Incorporating klezmer and Oriental modes, Shapiro’s approach is still surprisingly modern and quite swinging.
Jan 8, 2015 · Paul Shapiro, saxophonist, flautist, composer and bandleader, has been active in New York 's creative music scene for over two decades. Throughout the eighties he led his own avant-funk band Foreign Legion, which was featured on Emergency Records' compilation "This Is The Funk."
Paul Shapiro is a saxophone and flute player, composer, and bandleader who has been on the New York City music scene since the 1980s.
Paul Shapiro, a composer, saxophone player, and bandleader, has been a part of the New York City music scene ever since the 1980s. Shapiro was born and raised in Long Island, Westbury, NY. He graduated from Westbury High School and then moved to Montreal, Canada where he studied at McGill University.
