Art Shryer

Abraham "Art" Shryer (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם שרײער Avrum Shreyer, born c. 1883) was a Russian-born American Klezmer cornetist, bandleader, and recording artist who was active in the New York City area in the 1920s and 1930s.

[6][7] He did indeed leave Russia for Galicia at some point before emigrating to the United States; he lived in Skalat and Chortkiv, both in the Ternopil area and immediately across the border from Teofipol.

[10] He then returned to the same studio in April of that year to record another round of sides of Slavic music under the title Russky Narodny Orkestr.

[11] Perhaps for that reason, Shryer does not seem to have recorded in studio again, although he did continue to perform on the radio, on stage and even occasionally on film.

These were primarily curated by Henry Sapoznik, and include Klezmer pioneers 1905-1952: European and American recordings (Rounder Records, 1993), Jakie jazz 'em up: old-time klezmer music, 1912-1926 (Global Village, 1993), and Cantors, klezmorim, and crooners, 1905-1953: classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection (JSP, 2009).