Re: Blues and Jews

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

I don't know the complete catalog, but one can make a pretty good case for
saying that in the US Jews were most of the prime movers in blues
performance beyond the African-American community, to say nothing of the
role in recording by, for example, the Chess brothers in Chicago.  Think the
Blues Project, Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, Barry Goldberg, Corky
Siegel (and, I think, most of his band).  With the exception of the Blues
Project, most of these folks were based in my home town Chicago and made a
point of learning from and working with their African-American mentors.
Among the Brits, Alexis Korner was a leading Jewish bluesman.

Who says we're not interested?

Lori M Simon wrote:

> I didn't know there were many hundreds of Jewish great blues artists who
> had recorded.  Enlighten us.
> Lorele
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:16:50 -0000 "alf keiles" <alfesta (at) 
> onetel(dot)net(dot)uk>
> writes:
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I have personally researched many hundreds of Jewish great Blues
> > Artists, I
> > have a huge collection
> > Of original records and have professionally compiled and remastered
> > over 200
> > CD's for various companies
> > But members of your organisation are not interested
> >
> > Alf Keiles
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> > [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Judith Pinnolis
> > Sent: 3 December 2003 8:12pm
> > To: World music from a Jewish slant
> > Subject: Blues and Jews
> >
> > BLUES
> > So many of you are interested in the Blues, ....so I thought I'd
> > pass along
> > the "Document Records" Newsletter address.... it's a newsletter
> > about old
> > recordings in the blues and jazz, gospel etc. (out of UK, no less).
> > They're
> > remastering old 78s and other vintage recordings... I haven't
> > bought
> > anything from them, but it's interesting to read and see the great
> > heritage
> > recordings and artists.
> >
> > http://www.document-records.co.uk/newsletters/newsletter-16.htm
> >
> >
> > AND JEWS
> >
> > A few days ago, I discovered a wonderful work-around for those of
> > you who
> > don't have "flash" on your computers, and can't use the new
> > interface for
> > the Freedman catalogue at UPenn. It turns out that Google must have
> > crawled
> > the site some time back, using the old interface, and you can do
> > your
> > searching right through Google!... Just add the term 'freedman
> > catalogue' to
> > your search, and it gets right in, and searches the catalogue for
> > you!
> > Pretty cool.  For example, your search could say "freedman catalogue
> > abi
> > gezunt"  for a title search or "freedman catalogue gebirtig" for a
> > name
> > search. Once you're "in" the catalogue, you can make your way around
> > inside
> > the catalogue, just as before.
> >
> > Judy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and Jewish Studies
Adjunct Professor of American Studies
University of Minnesota
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