{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = TriBeCaStan | image = TriBeCeStan at Hillside Festival 2015.jpg | caption = The band TriBeCeStan performing at the 2015 Hillside Festival | origin = New York City | genre = World Music }} '''TriBeCaStan''' is an American world music ensemble from New York, New York.<ref name="NY Daily News">{{cite news|last=Farber|first=Jim|title=Jim Farber's top ten in music for the week of Feb. 12|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/jim-farber-top-ten-music-week-feb-12-article-1.1019736|publisher=NY Daily News|accessdate=18 September 2013|location=New York}}</ref> The band was co-founded by multi-instrumentalists John Kruth (mandolin, banjo, sitar, flute, and harmonica) and Jeff Greene (marimba, yayli tambor, Jew's harp)<ref name="Washington Post">{{cite news|last=Friskics-Warren|first=Bill|title=TriBeCaStan's 'New Deli': Fusing international jazz and folk|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/tribecastans-new-deli-fusing-international-jazz-and-folk/2012/02/10/gIQAyVXnBR_story.html|work=Washington Post|accessdate=18 September 2013|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> and includes baritone sax player Claire Daly, percussionist Boris Kinberg and Kenny Margolis on accordion and keyboards (both formerly with Willy DeVille), Premik Russell Tubbs (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Carlos Santana, Sting) - alto saxophone, flute, clarinet and lap steel guitar, bassist Ray Peterson (Eddie Harris), trombonist Chris Morrow, John Turner on trumpet and drummer Kirk Driscoll. Referred to as 'genre-bending' by The New York Times<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news|last=Maurer|first=Daniel|title=Watch Violent Femmes Frontman 'Save the Village' With 'Blister in the Sun'|url=http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/40005/|publisher=East Village Local - New York Times|accessdate=18 September 2013|date=11 October 2012}}</ref> and Alarm Magazine<ref name="Alarm Magazine">{{cite web|last=Morrow|first=Scott|title=This Week's Best Albums: January 10, 2012|url=http://alarm-magazine.com/best_albums/this-weeks-best-albums-january-10-2012/|publisher=Alarm Magazine|accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref> 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<ref name="Washington Post" /><ref name="Alarm Magazine" /><ref name="Roots World">{{cite web|title=TriBeCaStan|url=http://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/tribec-12.shtml|publisher=Roots World|accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref> 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 (Miles Davis, John McLaughlin) Bachir Attar (of the Master Musicians of Jajouka) bassist Dave Dreiwitz of Ween, trombonist Steve Turre.<ref name="allaboutjazz.com">{{cite web|last=Slawecki|first=Chris M.|title=TriBeCaStan: New Deli (2012)|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/new-deli-tribecastan-evergreene-music-review-by-chris-m-slawecki|publisher=allaboutjazz.com|access-date=18 September 2013}}</ref> guitarist Scott Metzger, .<ref name="Evergreene Music">{{cite web|title=TriBeCaStan|url=http://evergreenemusic.com/tribecastan/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218032719/http://evergreenemusic.com/tribecastan/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 18, 2012|publisher=Evergreene Music|accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref> and Matt Darriau (alto saxophone, clarinet, kaval) of the Klezmatics.
== Discography ==
The cover for their album ''New Deli'' was created by Cal Schenkel.<ref name="Rock Paper Scissors">{{cite web|title=New Release from Little Known Government of TriBeCaStan: Capital New Deli Found to Have Irregular Time-Space Continuum|url=http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/583.cfm|publisher=Rock Paper Scissors|accessdate=27 September 2013}}</ref>
Regarding the release of their album ''New Songs from the Old Country'', journalist Richard Gehr called it "the fourth (and best) album by a band specializing in making old and foreign music new again."<ref name="The Village Voice">{{cite web|last=Spanos|first=Brittany |title=The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/27/13|url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/09/best_concerts_9_27.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927130239/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/09/best_concerts_9_27.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 27, 2013|publisher=The Village Voice|accessdate=27 September 2013}}</ref> {| class="wikitable collapsible sortable" border="0" cellpadding="1" style="color: black; background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size:90%; width="45%" ! Year !! Album title !! Label |-valign="top" | width="7%"|2009 | width="37%"|''Strange Cousin'' | width="35%"|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 |}
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Category:American world music groups