Fwd: Information about Jack Boogich

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

Can anyone help this person?


>From: "Keith Bernstein" <kjb88 (at) verizon(dot)net>
>Subject: Information about Jack Boogich
>Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:44:01 -0500
>
>I am trying to gather information about a Jewish musician and composer 
>named Jack Boogich. He is my sister-in-law's maternal grandfather and I 
>assume was active in Jewish music circles in the 1930s-1960s. Mr. Boogich 
>and his brothers had a band in the New York City area and he was a 
>composer, most notably of the Boogich Bulgar, which can be found in the 
>Kamen No. 9 book of international (mostly Jewish) music. This piece is 
>still being recorded by Klezmer bands today.
>
>I am a jazz and classical musician myself but know little about Jewish 
>popular music other than what I played as a teenager in the 1960s when I 
>played the accordion in pop bands; that's how I still have the Kamen book 
>mentioned above. I wonder if you could point me to any books or other 
>sources of information that might have some biographical information about 
>Jack Boogich, his brothers, and the music they made.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Keith Bernstein
>kjb88 (at) verizon(dot)net

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