Making the Music Our Own

This nine-track album is composer/arranger Eugene Marlow’s first foray into recording his arrangements of Hebraic liturgical and folkloric melodies into various styles of jazz, Afro-Caribbean, and Brazilian genres.

The album is a combination of two recording sessions: one in the 1980s with a trio (the first five tracks) and another in the 1990s with a quintet (the last four tracks). Eugene Marlow performs on all nine tracks, however, the names of the two other musicians on the first five tracks are unknown.

“Eugene Marlow’s Making the Music Our Own is a remarkable musical achievement —traditional liturgical melodies meet up with a contemporary jazz sensibility and are rediscovered in a new musical spiritual light!”

— Isaiah Shefer
Artistic Director
Symphony Space, New York City

“Eugene Marlow gives a fresh and contemporary flair to some of the most beloved songs and prayers of the Jewish people.”

— Hadassah Markson
Former Music Director
92nd Street Y, New York City

“Eugene Marlow’s jazz renditions let us hear traditional Hebrew melodies in stirring new ways. I loved it. I just loved it!”

— Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark
Co-Host and Co-Producer
Beyond the Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour
WBAI, New York City

“Your remarkable ingenuity in resetting very familiar Hebraic melodies into concert-jazz settings inspires a sense of renewed commitment to our Jewish heritage, and reminds us that we are a surviving people precisely because of our abilities to adapt to new realms and a bring our unique culture and philosophies always into the present.”

— Charles M. Mirotznik, Esq.
Former President
Dance Library of Israel, Tel-Aviv

Title: Making the Music Our Own
Catalog #: J-4-2006

Release date: 2006
UPC: 8370727890
©2006 MEII Enterprises/BMI