Yiddish Twist Orchestra Bei Mir Bistu Shayn

Live at Paradise Gardens Festival, Victoria Park, London, June 2010 It is always the seam on your trousers that attracts the most dirt, said Alf Wax, the great Whitechapel tailor, and back in 1950s London the same was undoubtedly true for music. It was the seam of the big band and rock n roll eras that attracted musicians who produced what sounds now like the dirtiest, most deliriously danceable music of all that delirious mix of classic Yiddish songs, West Indian Calypso and English beat rhythms that