Re: klezmer (or not) Mann, oh man

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Dear Mel,

I have that album, on RED VINYL!  It used to belong to my father's older 
sister and hubby, but when they moved to Israel they told me I could 
take anything I wanted from the LPs.  This looked interesting, to my 
young eye, and am I glad I did!  Wow!  What a session!

And, mann, oh, mann, what a jerk Mingus must have seemed!

mit frayndshaft,
Lorele

p.s.  So glad to have brightened your day mit a bisl yidish!

zaynen mir gezunt


Mel Korn wrote:

>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.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of BrittGood (at) 
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>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:01 PM
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>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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