Re: The Anthology of Jewish Music "Yiddishe Momme"

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

Indeed, Vols. 4, 5, and 7 are largely from the Fremeaux compilation
"Yiddish".

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer Kaplan" <zelwel (at) attbi(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: The Anthology of Jewish Music "Yiddishe Momme"


> Finally! Klezmer bootlegs!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lorin Sklamberg" <lsklamberg (at) yivo(dot)cjh(dot)org>
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:34 AM
> Subject: RE: The Anthology of Jewish Music "Yiddishe Momme"
>
>
> > Hi, List!
> >
> > FWIW, volumes eight and nine of this series seem to be, well ok, are
taken
> > from previous anthologies issued in the U.S. For example, the Dave
Tarras
> > volume is basically a re-ordering of the Henry Sapoznik's Tarras
> compilation
> > on Yazoo, with a couple of things from Klezmer Pioneers thrown in. I
> suspect
> > that some (most?) of the other discs have similar "sources." The most
> > interesting (to me, anyway) would be the first disc which consists of
> Soviet
> > Union material. Some of the rest probably comes from Francois
Lilienfeld's
> > collections on Swiss Pan (which, in turn, mostly comes from the YIVO
> > Archives) and the double cd compilation on Fremeaux (since I don't have
> > these here, I can't check, but you can).
> >
> > This seems to be a trend. Anyone have the Goldies three cd box "Klassic
> > Klezmer?" This is all material lifted off of previous reissues,
including
> > the above mentioned, plus Martin Schwartz's anthology on Folklyric. (The
> > cover is almost worth the budget price alone: a photo montage of a
mosque,
> a
> > large menorah and an hasidic gentleman! Not to mention the list of
> > performers prominently displayed, as if they were MTV stars: "Naftule
> > Brandwein's Orchestra * Hochman's Orchestra * Belf's Rumanian Orchestra
*
> > Boibriker Kapelle * Abe Schwartz Orchestra * Dave Tarras Trio * and many

> > others." Certainly all household names where I come from.) Comically, I
> just
> > came across another cd on a different label which is basically a "best
of"
> > taken from this collection!!
> >
> > Klassik indeed. Can't wait for the Sony reissues, can you?
> >
> > Mr. Lorin Sklamberg, Sound Archivist
> > YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
> >
> > 15 West 16th Street
> > New York, NY 10011
> > Tel. (212) 294-6169
> > Fax (212) 292-1892
> > lsklamberg (at) yivo(dot)cjh(dot)org
> > http://www.yivoinstitute.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>


---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+