Re: recordings

[Ms. Cat <alanamscat...>]

And let's face it, Perelman just isn't a very good
*klezmer* musician.

ALana
--- Marvin <physchem (at) telocity(dot)com> wrote:
> 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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