RE: klezmer (or not) Mann, oh man

[Mel Korn <mkorn...>]

I am reading a book by Geoffrey Haydon, called Quintet of the Year, written
about the famous Massey Hall Jazz concert 50 years ago here in Toronto. This
concert was the only live performance featuring Charlie Parker, Dizzy
Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell and Charles Mingus. This famous concert was
captured on tape by a tape recorder set up by Max Roach and Charles Mingus,
and the results were released on a series of records, on Mingus' and
Roach's' fledgling Debut label. A CD is available and I highly recommend it,
as well as the book. But I digress from the relevance to this post.

This morning, as I read with my morning coffee, the author relates a story
from the 60's, that ells of a gig at New York's Village Gate club, featuring
Mingus sharing the bill with Herbie Mann. A quote from Dr. Luther Cloud who
witnessed what happened tells the tale.

He threw a drum at Herbie Mann, because Herbie was trying to play African
music, and he said, "What does a Jew like you know about African music?"
Then he busted up a microphone. He had a little pistol around his neck, as a
charm, but it happened to be a Derringer with two bullets in it.

I wonder how Mingus would have sounded on this new album?

Mel.

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Subject: klezmer (or not) Mann, oh man

Chaverim,
pardon my enthusiasm, but ...
I'm in love with a new CD and I just had to share it with the list.
It's Herbie Mann's "Eastern European Roots". Yes, it's the same
jazz flute I've loved since I first heard it as a teenager, but there
is something more, a soulfulness. Mann explains in his liner
notes that a brush with death made him re-examine his musical
life, and he realized he had explored many other types of music but not his
own
Jewish musical roots -- his mother is from Bucovina, Romania.
When he recovered, he traveled to Eastern Europe and this CD is the result.
He's joined by other exemplary musicians, most notably Gil Goldstein on
accordion (sounds to me like a chromatic button accordion) played
with a moody musette sound. And Alexander Fedoriouk on cymbalom, my
current instrument of choice. His style ranges from a dark, old time
klezmer-
sound to a jazzy gypsy swing (a la Kalman Balogh).
However you classify this album (jazz, klezmer), I'm sure many list
members will also enjoy it.

Britt
(Nefesh Klezmer Band)


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