Re: Avishai Cohen

[farfl's house <farfl...>]

Or the multi-talented Ben Goldberg's projects?
SL

Eliezer Kaplan wrote:

> Along similar lines, where do John Zorn's Masada projects fit in? Or Uri
> Caine's Mahler thing?
>                         EK
>
> At 11:24 AM 12/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >People from the list were helpful identifying the lineage of Elliot
> >Smith, so here's a new one for the week.
> >
> >Avishai Cohen is a rather critically acclaimed young jazz string
> >bassist.
> >
> >He has recently fronted a group for his first album, "Adama".  The CD
> >(on Stretch 9015) contains such selections as "Adama", "Dror", "Gadu"
> >and "Ora".  I haven't heard any of it yet.
> >
> >The question is, can this music be classified as Jewish music in any
> >way beyond the heritage of the musician and the titles of the works.
> >In other words, if I didn't know those things about the music and
> >heard it "blind", could I tell that its composer/performer was Jewish
> >(for example, based on its musical themes)?
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >