Hasidic New Wave

{{Short description|American experimental klezmer music group}}

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Hasidic New Wave is an American experimental klezmer music group. Its members, all of whom were improvisational jazz musicians from downtown Manhattan, formed for the purpose of fusing Hasidic musical styles (such as the Hora and Nigun) with elements of jazz and avant-garde rock.{{Cite web |last=Marmer |first=Jake |title=Reviving the Downtown Sound: John Zorn's Tzadik record label compiles the radical work of the 1980s New York jazz group Hasidic New Wave |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/reviving-the-downtown-sound |access-date=March 24, 2023 |website=Tablet Magazine}} Trumpet player Frank London (also a member of The Klezmatics) sees Hasidic New Wave as evidence that Yiddish culture continues to thrive in the 21st century.{{Cite web |last=Haskel |first=Adam |date=2022-12-29 |title=Yiddish New York sees the culture blossom in song and film |url=https://www.jns.org/yiddish-new-york-sees-the-culture-blossom-in-song-and-film/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Jewish News Syndicate |language=en-US}}

Greg Wall and Frank London originally met at the New England Conservatory of Music (where they both studied jazz) and reconnected in New York, when they both begun learning Hasidic music to play wedding gigs supporting themselves. A lot of that music made its way into Hasidic New Wave recordings.

Hasidic New Wave released a retrospective 5-CD boxset on Tzadik Records in late 2012.{{Cite web |title=Hasidic New Wave: The Complete Recordings |url=https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8171-5 |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Tzadic}}

Previously, the band has recorded 5 CDs, including four on Knitting Factory's Jewish Alternative Movement label.{{Cite web |date=December 5, 1999 |title=Jazz, Judaism, and Grooves |url=https://www.npr.org/1999/12/05/4857355/december-5-1999-jazz-judaism-and-grooves |access-date=March 24, 2023 |website=National Public Radio - WNYC}}