Several years ago, I was approached by PBS. They were airing a concert by David Broza, and they wanted to know if I wanted to interview him. I, of course, agreed, and while that was not the first time I had interviewed a luminary of Jewish music, it was the first time I recorded it.

And now that I have recorded podcasts of two dozen such interviews, I thought it would be nice to put them all in one place, since they are scattered all over the JUF News multimedia page. They are presented roughly in the order in which I did them. I decided not to organize them by genre, so that you can experience the same "musical whiplash," as a friend of mine once put it, that I did as I have wended my way through Jewish music. I haven't interviewed everyone I want to yet, but I'd like to think this is a good start:

David Broza

Andy Statman

Lori Lippitz of The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Craig Taubman

Matisyahu

David Chevan of the Afro-Semitic Experience

Sam Glaser

Ruby Harris of The Diaspora Yeshiva Band and Jazmer

Josh Nelson (the rocker, not Joshua Nelson, the gospel singer)

Scott Leader

Kol Sasson

Beth Schafer

Debbie Friedman  

Greg Wall

Yasmin Levy

Frank London of the Klezmatics

Neshama Carlebach

Annete Kogan of Golem

Rick Recht

Yefim Bronfman

The Maccabeats

Dave Brubeck (not Jewish, but has a surprising amount of Jewish content in his music. And also, could I possibly have turned him down?)

Yoshie Fruchter of Pitom

Kinky Friedman