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school while he was working in
Minneapolis and includes original and
sing-along numbers. The next two
recordings were the result of other
requests for more music and had the
rabbi collaborating with Mark Bloom,
who composed some of the music and
did some of the arrangements. The

abbi Joe Black thinks of
music as the language of
the soul.
It's the language he
speaks from the pulpit, in concerts
and on recordings, some-
times performing his original
songs and other times inter-
preting songs written by oth-
ers.
His congregation in
Albuquerque, N.M., has
become used to services
enlivened with his singing
and guitar playing. Jewish
audiences around the coun-
try come to hear traditional
messages expressed with
today's beats.
Rabbi Black, who per-
formed three years ago at Adat
Shalom Synagogue, returns to
the area with an adult concert
at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at
the Jimmy Prentis Morris
Jewish Community Center in
Oak Park.
"My Michigan concert is
an opportunity to perform
some new music from my
upcoming CD, Leave a Little Rabbi Joe Black comes to town with a concert
Bit Undone, and share music geared to adults on Saturday evening at the Jewish
that people already are famil- Community Center in Oak Park.
iar with from my other
fourth CD represents a more indepen-
albums," says Rabbi Black, who infus-
dent project.
es his songs with Latin and rock 'n'
"There's a balance that I try to main-
roll rhythms.
tain in my life," says Rabbi Black, 40,
"My new CD has themes that are
honored as one of the Top Ten Artists
geared to a more sophisticated audi-
in the categories of Jewish Children's
ence. I explore issues of mortality,
Music and Male, Adult Contemporary
appreciation of everyday life, liturgy,
Jewish Music by Moment magazine.
biblical passages and social action. I
"My family comes first, then my con-
think there are many different levels to
gregation, then my music."
much of the music."
Detroit fans are about to see a
In the title piece, the key idea
rare
performance. The rabbi accepts
relates Judaism to other spiritual tradi-
only
about five out-of-town concerts
tions — Native American, Christian,
each
year.
Buddhist and Islamic.
"When I was in college as an
Rabbi Black's new CD follows three
undergraduate, I was taking courses in
others — Rabbi Joe Black Sings (1990),
Aleph Bet Boogie (1991) and Everybody's Judaism," explains Rabbi Black, who
spent six months as an exchange stu-
Got a Little Music (1992). He also has
dent in Israel while he was in high
recorded a video, Sing Me a Story:
school in Evanston, Ill.
Rabbi Joe Black in Concert (1992).
"I was majoring in education and
The first CD was done at the
playing
in clubs. When I took a year off
request of his synagogue nursery

