Music Review: Musical Cousins

AN EVENING IN THE VILLAGE: The Music of Béla Bartók by Jake Schepps (Fine Mighty)

By Keith Goetzman
November-December 2011

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Hungarian composer Béla Bartók got his best stuff from rural folk, and banjoist Jake Schepps takes Bartók’s music back to the countryside—American style. Leading a grassy roots ensemble of banjo, violin, mandolin, guitar, cello, and bass, Schepps adroitly balances the refined and the rustic while indulging Bartók’s ear for spirited melodies and swelling emotionalism. It’s a marriage so natural that you might hardly notice when “Cousin Sally Brown” strolls through the proceedings.

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