Re: recordings

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

Maybe not.  But he was pretty funny.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ms. Cat" <alanamscat (at) yahoo(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: recordings


> 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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