EDITORIAL REVIEWS .COM Even though klezmer music has been on a perennial new wave from its earliest days in New York s crowded Jewish tenements Hassidic New Wave is definitely not your grandparents klezmer. Trumpeter Frank London and saxophonist Greg Wall lead this quintet which is in the vanguard of exploring segues between avant-garde jazz and traditional Yiddish music. London s sharpened his teeth as a founding member of the vaunted Klezmatics but even they sound downright staid compared to Hassidic New Wave. The band s second CD bears all the brilliant bright melodies of old-time klezmer but spikes them with scraggly guitar from David Fiuczynski and peals of sax from Wall. For the klezmer traditionalist this may seem like a risky venture. However the music is raucous fun and humorous--in perfect keeping with klezmer s storied past. --Andrew Bartlett