“An incisively political and thoroughly contemporary work. Each track directly addresses specific social challenges of our time with sensitivity, authenticity and emotional presence. The styles integrate seamlessly and create a whole that transcends time and place, mixing the ultra-contemporary with the ancestral and timelessly familiar. “ - BORSCHT BEAT
With Lone Piñon:
With David Wax Museum, 2011-2015:
with The S’Matterchew Boys (Columbia, MO):
Protest Songs of Woody Guthrie for Today’s Troubled Times(2003)
Solo :
Jordan Wax: The Parking Lot at 9th & Ash and the Tsunami it Barely Survived (2000)
with The Cat’s Pajamas (Columbia, MO):
Bulldozer (1999)
The Cat’s Pajamas (1997)
with The Klez Dispensers (Columbia, MO):
God Bless Klezmerica (1999)
“This is an album for all families with young children, from Yiddishists to non-Jews, spanning themes from soccer, monsters, and polar bears to cultural traditions. Pantakozak invites listeners of all ages into a lively, playful, and deeply musical Yiddish world.” - BORSCHT BEAT
With The People’s Republic of Klezmerica, 2005:
With The Cat’s Pajamas, 1999:
From “Qué dirá el gringo?: Judeo-Missourian Music from Ecuador”
“What I like about Lone Piñon is that they don’t treat the music like a museum piece; they absorb all their contemporary stuff, and it’s there deep in their musical identity.” - NPR’s ALT.LATINO
“…Great energy, authenticity and devotion.” -CHRIS STRACHWITZ, founder of Arhoolie Records
“…an essential, important work of engaging, beautiful, and soulful traditional Southwest American music." -FOLKWORKS
“Lone Piñon can hold their own against any headliner, anywhere in the world. They’re simply that good, and they make the music of the border into something living, breathing and absolutely enticing.” -FROOTS UK
“One of the 50 best Latin American CDs of 2007.” - ROLLING STONE
With La Rocola Bacalao (Quito, Ecuador), 2001-2007:
“Cheerfully infectious.” - THE GUARDIAN
Solo (Quito, Ecuador), 2002:
“Una de las ocho mejores bandas de la región.” - ROLLING STONE
“This album highlights the pleasure to be derived from cross-cultural relationships. These Días Felices are uplifting.” - NO DEPRESSION