Yes it exists. I haven't heard it yet but here's a link.
to Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Margot is an outstanding clarinet player. I've got another of her CDs. Sadly all the sample tracks are in Real format. Totally inexcusable.
I'm going to order this ASAP.
Klezmer Bluegrass fusion
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A friend of mine, ironically a Jewish clarinet player, told me that in the early thirties many klezmer artists came to the US and worked in the Big Band era. He said you can hear the klezmer influence in a lot of Big Band work. I'd like to try to dig some up.
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I'm only guessing here but I'd say a standard concert clarinet. What's that? Bb I think from memory.Sylvester wrote:BTW, do you know in which key should a clarinet be (better than other) if I mean to play Klezmer music? I've seen clarinets in different keys, know nothing about them and I'd hate buying the wrong one.
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There was a once common earlier system of clarinet that was used in early jazz. It wouldn't surprise me if the early klezmorim used it but I've forgotten the details.
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This is hotly disputed. Benny Goodman obviously comes to mind. Artie Shaw has the right background but doesn't sound as klezmer-influenced to me. The opening gliss to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue sounds to me like pure klezmer but was (apparently) made up by Ross Gorman who was a Gentile. That said, Gorman might have been influenced in his technique by klezmer players; any sane jazz clarinettist would have been listening to Tarras and Brandwein.Flyingcursor wrote:A friend of mine, ironically a Jewish clarinet player, told me that in the early thirties many klezmer artists came to the US and worked in the Big Band era. He said you can hear the klezmer influence in a lot of Big Band work. I'd like to try to dig some up.
Sam Musiker ran an early and successful klezmer-jazz fusion band.
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CheersSylvester wrote:
BTW, do you know in which key should a clarinet be (better than other) if I mean to play Klezmer music? I've seen clarinets in different keys, know nothing about them and I'd hate buying the wrong one.
Cheers
I'm only guessing here but I'd say a standard concert clarinet. What's that? Bb I think from memory