Jewish music and non-Jewish idioms

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Well, fwiw, I would categorize (if the categorizing matters at all) by the 
recording/piece/project, *not* by the musician!  So, e.g., DIASPORA SOUL 
(which I don't know {of] and am now interested in hearing) would, based on 
Gideon's description, be an example of (again, if anybody cares) 
incorporating contemporary idioms into Jewish music (Ben Sidran did this, 
too, w/ jazzy stylings) rather than the reverse.


>From: GAronoff (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: What Is Jewish Music? (revisited!)
>Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 18:19:17 EST
>
>Robert -
>
>Interesting point regarding the incorporation of Jewish music into 
>non-Jewish
>or vice versa.  Clearly Shlomo et al were primarily Jewish musicians who
>borrowed from their non-Jewish musical environment.  But what do you make 
>of
>musicians who mostly make music that is Jewish only in the ethnicity of the
>artist, but then make a single clearly Jewish recording.  Steven 
>Bernstein's
>album "Diaspora Soul" is a gulf coast jazz setting of traditional Jewish
>tunes.  I doubt if Steven would consider himself a "Jewish Musician" (note
>the quotation marks) after just one disc.  But to my ear this is a valuable
>contribution to Jewish music that incorporates jazz into the Jewish musical
>tradition.

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