Re: recordings

[Marvin <physchem...>]

I disagree.  The 2nd album is too much about Perelman, with the klezmer
bands only platying background for him.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mattflight (at) aol(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:07 PM
Subject: recordings


>     From someone who listens to way to many records, I think that the
second
> Perlman recording is the better one. The space adds so much to that
recording
> that it has a feeling that is more realistic, it has more energy. Live
albums
> have more energy because the musicians have been playing take after take
of
> the same tune. Your first couple of takes in a studio will be the
freshest,
> live album will for the most part have this freshness. For those of you
that
> have had the pleasure of listening to Acetate recordings know this
feeling,
> it is directly from the artist to the end result. This is the same thing
at a
> concert.
>     Now this isn't always true, some bands you go hear live and say that
they
> weren't as good as the album. At least my experience in playing and seeing
> Jewish acts live is that they are better live than in the studio. Their is
an
> energy level that can get lost in the studio.  I don't know how many of
you
> saw the documentary on "Q"uincy Jones on PBS a couple of months ago. He
was
> recording a big band album in two days, and for the last part of the
second
> day they bring in a live studio audience, you can hear the way the
musicians
> change how they play.  Their isn't this feeling that if I make a mistake
we
> can go back and make another mistake, or that just the guys will know
about
> it. You have an audience that you have to play for.
>     I could go on, but I think that the send button needs to be hit at
this
> point.
>
>
>
> Matt Temkin - Mattflight (at) aol(dot)com
>     Assistant Archivist; Klezmer Conservatory Foundation
>     Jewish Music Percussionist
>
> PS. "Q" produced at least one album of Jewish Music, "Terry Gibbs Plays
> Jewish Melodies in Jazztime," Mercury MG 20812.
>
>
>
>

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