Re: A bedeken question

[r l reid <ro...>]

AGREENBA (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
> leave it to Roger to know where to find EVERYTHING there is to listen to, 
> from great hasidisco (uh, haven't found that yet myself) to raw Breton session
> music and Neginah Orchestra's cover of Hawaii Five-Oh????
> Go Rog! Ye leave no stone unturned!

I'd trade it all for 1/100 of your chops.  (He says, taking a break from
trying to remember the four chords he has to play this Sunday...)

Actually, I was thinking the CD I made for Jill would make a nice 
CD-distributed radio program for introducing people to the wide world
of Jewish music from the banal to the sublime - I'd call it "Not the
Klezmatics".  (One of these days I should give a listen to the Klezmatics
and see what everyone's so excited about).

It's a real dilettante compilation, lots of breadth, without much depth.
It careens from Seret Visnitz hits of the 70's to scratchy Breslov tapes
to Akiva Ben Horin to KarlinStolin, swings through Chabad before 
plunging into Chicago Klezmer Ensemble - hits "Turn Over", a bizarre
studio CD for Purim with no attribution at all - has 6 distict versions of
the Belz Hakafos known by some as "Shark In The Mikveh", swerves into
a Satmar Devikus, stops every half hour by Bobov, neglects not the
nigunei of the Pittsburgher Rebbe, Neshoma, Neguni, Ger Yom Tov tunes -
OY!  I forgot to put any Yom Tov Erlich on it!

All because sometimes I'm too darned lazy to practice.  
ro

-- 
r l reid        ro (at) rreid(dot)net


---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+