"I remember being a little nervous, a little freaked out, like, what on earth is going to happen here?" Socalled says. Four years ago, when Socalled learned that someone in Krakauer's klezmer band knew a musician who played with Wesley, the three arranged to meet at a rehearsal studio in Carnegie Hall. He grew up at a time when Wesley's trombone riffs from the old James Brown records were widely sampled in hip-hop. He says he never imagined incorporating klezmer with hip-hop and funk.ĭJ Socalled, the Montreal-based accordion player and beat architect, is the third principal in Abraham, Inc. Krakauer, on the other hand, pursued classical clarinet and klezmer music after graduating from Juilliard in 1980. He also played jazz with the Count Basie Orchestra. Wesley spent years on the road with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic.
to the collaboration, and their band, Abraham, Inc., has audiences dancing in the aisles.īefore meeting Wesley, Krakauer already knew that he was the funkiest trombone player on the planet.
Now, Krakauer has added legendary funk trombone player Fred Wesley Jr. Several years ago, he connected with DJ Socalled, a young Canadian musician, and started playing klezmer with a hip-hop beat. Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry.
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