Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 1994/07

From: Jim Freeman <collnjim@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Giora Feidman
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 16:03:23 -0400

On Fri, 8 Jul 1994, Lisa Clayton wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jul 1994, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote: > > > So
now I limit myself to listening to him play, not talk. And when he > >
does play, I am still awed. Another who has that kind of intensity is > >
Sabine Meyer. A few other musicians have it too, but hardly any > >
clarinet players that I know if. (All this is personal opinion, and > >
in no way can be asserted to be fact. It is simply how I perceive these >
> people and their playing.) > > Regarding Giora Feidman and Sabine Meyer:
forgive my ignorance (since > I'm still a newbie on the clarinet) but what
would be good, representative > recordings on the above folks? I'm
acquainted with Klezmer, but I know > very little about its history or its
main practitioners, especially > clarinetists. Considering I found Don
Byron because of this list, > I take your recommendations *very* seriously
and will no doubt rush > down to Tower at the first opportunity to
purchase said recommendations. > BTW, I am vinyl-ready if CDs don't exist.
Media is no object! > > Lisa K. Clayton > San Francisco, CA >
clayton@-----.edu >

A first-rate local (if you live in S.F.) jazz and klezmer clarinetist is
Ben Goldberg. His music is not the "traditional" klezmer of Friedman, but
an exciting new- music take on Klezmer. He has a few CDs out: the two that
I have are " Masks and Faces" and "the Nature of Things." Both are on
the 9 Winds label. Ben is a great guy and a very well-trained clarinet
player as well, having studied with Rosario Mazzeo for several years.

Jim Freeman (collnjim@-----.edu)