Jordan performs both traditional songs and his own original compositions in Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews. His debut full-length studio album of original Yiddish songs, The Heart Deciphers | טײַטש, will be released in January 2025. Stay tuned for news.
An original song in Yiddish. This track is a pre-release in anticipation of an upcoming full-length studio album of original contemporary Yiddish songs.
A solo performance (with bilingual subtitles) of Shmerke Kaczerginski’s “Yugnt Himen,” composed to sing with the children of the youth club in the Vilna ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland in WWII.
Video performance for the Josh Parshall’s history of Jewish social movements in the American South, a virtual program of the National Yiddish Book Center. With Bill Gianquinto (trumpet).
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Learned from Misha Limanovich z”l, performed with Margot Leverett (clarinet) and Tanya Nuñez (upright bass) in March, 2022.
Original English lyrics set to a traditional klezmer melody from the Beregovski collection. With Margot Leverett (clarinet) and Tanya Nuñez (upright bass).