Re: Uri Caine Malher Project

[Jeffrey Miller/Burden of Proof Research <jefmil...>]

Caine's Mahler CDs are on New Editions, Winter & Winter.  I could find only
the live one, which was expensive (two CDs; over $40 in Canadian funds), and
I imagine that our local music critic, Tamara Bernstein at _The National
Post_ in Toronto, is right when she says that the studio version is, well,
more tolerable.  There's a lot of noodling around on the live version, and
what I hear as gratuitous khrechtching, to coin a word.  But there are some
really good bits (the musicianship level, of course, is very high) and the
klezmer influence is clear.  

At 09:48 PM 4/13/00 EDT, you wrote:
>I had the pleasure of seeing this live in Phily early in the year. It was 
>very good. Don Byron playing was something to see. If memory holds me right 
>they worked in 2 klezmer tunes. How Jewish the more memorable one is can be 
>debated, I have also heard the tune being played by the Moscow Circus a 
>couple of years ago. 
>    The last time I was in Chicago I stopped by the Jazz Record Mart where I 
>noticed that they had two different versions of the album on the Winter and 
>Winter Label. One was the 1 CD studio version and the other was a 2 CD live 
>version. I haven't heard the live version but I did notice that it didn't 
>have a clarinet on it so I don't know if it is of as much interest to people. 
>    As for the person who wanted to know about record stores that carry 
>Klezmer music in Chicago, along with places like Tower, and Borders,  The 
>Jazz Record Mart has a good sized collection of Jewish Music. They had mostly 
>CD's distributed by Rounder, Tzadik and Knitting Factory (I'm not sure who is 
>the distributer for that but I would think that it must be a jazz label or a 
>label with jazz. They Rounder disks in because of all the blues music that 
>Rounder has.) This may be a good place to check for records, I'm not sure my 
>collection is mostly on CD's. 
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>Matt Temkin
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