Re: Klezmerwelten 2004

[Jordan Hirsch <trombaedu...>]

I am not sure if I agree with all the examples of the Jewish Jam Band having a 
Jewish sound. Certainly, in the case of Soulfarm, there are a lot of Shlomo 
Carlebach references.

I think the Jam Band idea is one familiar to non Jewish Audiences through the 
Dead, of course, and most recently Phish. The general audience does not need us 
to have a Jam band, but they do need us for
Klezmer. While musicians like Soulfarmand Yossi Piaments perform in non-Jewish 
venues, I do not think they draw much from outside the Jewish listening 
comunity for their audience.

Jordan



r l reid wrote:

> Sam Weiss wrote:
> > =On October 19, 2000, Heiko Lehmann held a lecture on "Klezmer in 
> > Germany/Germans and Klezmer: Reparation or Contribution" at WOMEX in 
> > Berlin, House of World Cultures. Here is the complete script:=
>
> Interesting, but this is a sociological answer.
>
> My question was audiological.  Where do you get the sound in your ear?
> My point was not that you had to be Jewish, but that you had to be able to
> hear Jewish.
>
> And I suspect the obvious answer is, in these days of recordings, you can
> fill your life with any sounds you wish without living in close proximity
> to the source.
>
> Certainly, while my audiological brain is informed by the sounds of
> my spouse's bube alav hashalom whom we lived with for many years, and the
> sounds of Zvi and Harry and Schmulie and the rest at shul, and our years
> living in Boro Park and Canarsie -
>
> at the same time I certainly have no feel or audiological memory of
> Galacian tsimbl other than the licks off of records I have learned.
>
> So that's probably the blinding glimpse of the obvious.
>
> I'm still curious if the Blue Fringe / Soul Farm / JCQ / Rashamin style
> has infected the non-Jewish Europeans in any way.  Some very exciting -
> and to my poor ear, very Jewish - sounds are coming out of this phenomenon,
> but just as we klezmer types bemoan the lack of interest in our music
> by the general Jewish population, so we klezmer types seem to be
> dismissive of the yeshiva-jam-band type music, which is a fascinating
> development in the history of Jewish music AFAIC.
>
> ro
>
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