Re: Klezmer "bootlegs"?

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Budowitz Website: http://www.budowitz.com

Regarding Brian and Yakov's comments on bootlegging:

I am often asked by archives, libraries, radio stations, reviewers, schools
and internet organizations to donate my recordings to them in the mutual
interest of allowing more viewers to be exposed to our music, which in turn,
they say, will help me get better known and help spread the music as well.
One radio station even asked me to donate 20 records to give to their
listeners as gifts when those listeners supported the station with
donations. I was sincerely touched by their generosity toward their
listeners.

Since a musician's income is derived from the very limited spheres of
performing, teaching and from a small amount of recording sales, I have a
great idea, which I'm sure you will greet enthusiastically:

We will lend you a free recording of your choice for perpetuity , and in
return, you lend us a small donation of17 dollars for the same length of
time. I'm convinced that with such a modest arrangement, both your listeners
and the creative musicians will feel warm and cozy. Let me know where to
send, and I'll provide you with my account number. Postage costs on me.
Yours, Josh Horowitz

>> Do you or does anyone else have live tapes/CDs available for the cost of
>> postage and media?
>>
>> Yakov.
>
> I have contacted many Klezmer artists and have posted to the list a few
> times about authorized live recordings. Unfortunately, Klezmer artists seem
> to be opposed to allowing any recordings of their performances mainly due to
> contract agreements with recording labels and for fear that they will "lose
> money" by allowing a few free recordings to circulate. It's really too bad
> because bands who authorize live recordings enjoy the benefit of having
> their music circulated to a large audience of serious music fans. This kind
> of word of mouth advertising/sharing helps to sell more CDs and concert
> tickets.
>
> There are some legitimate distribution streams for these live recordings
> such as http://www.etree.org that have a very strict policy of only allowing
> authorized, high-quality recordings in order to respect and preserve the
> integrity of the artists as well as the music. Bootlegs, unauthorized
> recordings, are strictly forbidden and banned. By high-quality, people who
> participate in the etree project typically rely on a specific type of
> compression (shorten) that maintains the quality of  digital music files,
> unlike mp3s (that, imo, sound rather flat and crummy).
>
> Etree servers are maintained by volunteers with high-speed internet
> connections (shorten files are still really large and take a long time to
> download) containing rock, jazz, bluegrass and a lot of other wonderful
> music. I have a cable modem, ftp server and lots of drive space that I'd
> love to stuff with live Klezmer and other interesting live jewish music as
> soon as anyone is willing to authorize it. 8)
>
> brian
> --
> "Each thing, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own
> being." --Baruch Spinoza, (Pr. 6, III) The Ethics
>
>
> 

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