Re: Klezmer and Ska

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

>  Subject: klezmer and ska?
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:35:11 +0100
> From: gerbn (at) wxs(dot)nl (Gerben Zaagsma)
> To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>
> Dear all,
>
> with the recent discussion on 'punk' and klezmer I suddenly rembered having
> read something somewhere about (I think it was) the Klezmatics who did
> something with music by the Skatalites. Could anyone tell me if this is
> true? It sounds like the best of two worlds and actually not illogical:
> sometimes when I hear klezmer I can almost hear the backbeat..
>
> MOI
> Gerben
>
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> Gerben Zaagsma
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> 9717 BN  Groningen
> The Netherlands
>
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> email:    gerbn (at) wxs(dot)nl
>

I can certainly hear what you mean. And you're not alone:  Check out a new CD 
called "King
Django's Roots and Culture" released on Triple Crown Records. I reviewed it a 
couple of
weeks ago for Jewish Week in NYC and liked it a lot. The ska-Yiddish connection 
works well
on this recording (except for a version of "Haveinu Shalom Aleichem" which is 
pretty
silly).

George Robinson