Fw: Village Voice Pazz & Jop Preview

[wiener <wiener...>]

And this, from the same article.

HONORABLE MENTION: Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars, Di Shikere
Kapelye (Piranha import): "Band of Drunks" revisited?the Jewish
equivalent of nouveau honkytonk ("A Shiker Iz a Bloyzer-Shpiler [A
drunk is a brass-player]," "Lekhaim, Efraim [Cheers, Frank]");

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From: wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
To: World Music from a Jewish Slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 1:03 AM
Subject: Village Voice Pazz & Jop Preview


>I thought that the list might like to see this review.
>
>Published February 7 - 13, 2001
>Consumer Guide
>by Robert Christgau
>
>Pazz & Jop Preview
>
>KHEVRISA
>European Klezmer Music (Smithsonian Folkways)
> Buy  Listen
>
>The idea of klezmer as goodtime music makes every bit as much sense
as
>the idea of polka as goodtime music. Obviously that's the main thing
>both are supposed to be. Only goodtime musics happen to be a passion
>of mine, and there are plenty that do the deed better. So the klezmer
>that moves me generally has spiritual ambitions. With Klezmatics
>violinist Alicia Svigals relegated to second fiddle by leader Steven
>Greenman, this American ensemble performs original-instrumentation
>suites designed for rich people's weddings a century ago. Never a
>repertoire that took celebration to unseemly extremes, by now it
>partakes of a classical civility that packs just the charm to soothe
a
>plebe with no passion for civility. A MINUS
>
>Bob
>
>

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