Masks and Faces (album)

Masks and Faces
Studio album by New Klezmer Trio
Released	1991
Recorded	June 1990, Music Annex, Menlo Park, California
Genre	Jazz, Klezmer
Length	53:17
Label	Nine Winds NWCD 0144 Tzadik TZ 7112
Producer	New Klezmer Trio
New Klezmer Trio chronology
Masks and Faces (1991) Melt Zonk Rewire (1995)
Ben Goldberg chronology
Masks and Faces (1991) The Relative Value of Things (1992)

Masks and Faces is the debut album by the New Klezmer Trio, Ben Goldberg - clarinet, Dan Seamans - bass, and Kenny Wollesen - drums, which was originall released on the Nine Winds label in 1991 and re-released on the Tzadik label in 1996.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

In his review for Allmusic, Joslyn Layne observed "this raucous, bursting, and somewhat disjointed music sustains a groove that's not so hard to hang on to. Almost an hour in length, New Klezmer Trio's first release ebbs and flows, relentlessly packed with high quality tunes".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Ben Goldberg except as indicated

1. "Cardboard Factory" - 5:06
2. "Hot and Cold" (Traditional) - 3:44
3. "Rebbe's Meal" (Traditional) - 7:36
4. "Up" (Dan Seamans) - 4:19
5. "Washing Machine Song" (Traditional) - 2:59
6. "Galicain" (Sam Beckerman) - 5:18
7. "Masks and Faces" - 6:33
8. "Haphazard" (Itzikel Kramtweiss) - 4:03
9. "Bitonal Song" (Kramtweiss) - 3:06
10. "The Gate" - 10:33

Personnel

• Ben Goldberg - clarinet, bass clarinet
• Dan Seamans - bass
• Kenny Wollesen - drums

References