TriBeCaStan
TriBeCaStan is an American world music ensemble from New York, New York. The band was co-founded by multi-instrumentalists John Kruth and Jeff Greene and includes baritone sax player Claire Daly, percussionist Boris Kinberg and Kenny Margolis on accordion and keyboards, Premik Russell Tubbs - alto saxophone, flute, clarinet and lap steel guitar, bassist Ray Peterson, trombonist Chris Morrow, John Turner on trumpet and drummer Kirk Driscoll.
Referred to as 'genre-bending' by The New York Times and Alarm Magazine the band has been known to defy musical genre description, with several publications describing their music as fusing avant-garde jazz, klezmer, Balkan, Indian, Middle Eastern, Afghani folk, Afrofunk, Chinese traditional music, African, Latin jazz and surf rock and has been compared to the British world music band 3 Mustaphas 3 by All Music Guide. Other musicians who have been known to play with the band include tabla player Badal Roy Bachir Attar bassist Dave Dreiwitz of Ween, trombonist Steve Turre. guitarist Scott Metzger,. and Matt Darriau of the Klezmatics.
Discography
The cover for their album New Deli was created by Cal Schenkel.Regarding the release of their album New Songs from the Old Country, journalist Richard Gehr called it "the fourth album by a band specializing in making old and foreign music new again."
| Year | Album title | Label |
| 2009 | Strange Cousin | Evergreene |
| 2010 | 5-Star Cave | Evergreene |
| 2012 | New Deli | Evergreene |
| 2013, Oct 1 | New Songs from the Old Country | Evergreene |
| 2015, Oct 15 | Goddess Polka Dottess | Evergreene |