Variety: Was Dancing the slow hora

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Hankus:

Thank you.
What are, off the top of your =kepele=,
10 or 15 "Jewish Music" recordings that
exemplify these qualities best?

Greetings from Northampton.

Wolf


HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
>
> > Bradwein had an unparalelled bag of rhythmic tricks and articulations.  He
> > was Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holliday all rolled into one.
> > --Hankus
> >
>
> What links all these figures together is what some people call "variety."
> Knowlege of repertoire, life experience, creativity, and technique all
> interact and the result is playing which, when merely imitated might be more
> Connick than Sinatra (Sorry, Harry, are you on this list too?).  Don't get me
> wrong, accurate imitation is an essential part of the learning process, but
> it's only the "repertoire" componant.  This is why for my money Sun Ra's
> Arkestra captures a lot more of the New Orleans spirit than the guys in the
> straw hats.  It may be harder to dance to music with lots of variety, as
> alluded to in the original posting (note that the swing revival was built
> around Louis Prima, not Ellington or Basie) but perhaps it tends to endure
> more as art.  --Hankus
>
>

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