Paul Brody: from San Francisco to Berlin

San Francisco-born trumpeter Paul Brody lives in Berlin since 15 years, as Uwe Sauerbein reports ( Berliner Morgenpost ). Brody's mother who lived in Vienna escaped the Nazis. When he told her he would move to Germany, she spoke German again for the first time. Over the years he worked with a very mixed bunch of projects: show and soul stars, advocates of industrial music, filmmakers, but also with genre crossing jazz musicians such as John Zorn and his "Radical Jewish Music". Klezmer music was just as influential on him as Beethoven, Bela Bartok's adaptations of folk songs or Duke Ellington. His inner attitude makes his music Jewish, he says, but he does not play folklore: "I am not a museum."