Klarinet Archive - Posting 001252.txt from 2000/12

From: fred jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Klezmer 'How to' ??
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:39:05 -0500

William,
There is no such thing as a "Klezmer tone". Might
you mean all those wonderful other sounds and
ornaments that we Klezmorim do? I us a standard
symphony setup with a VD#4.5 reed. The "tone" comes
from a concept of 'singing' rather than just
'playing'. The whole approach of a folk musician to
tone is to sound like a voice, with all it's swoops,
etc. NOT TO SOUND "PERFECT" AND UNBLEMISHED!! (such as
in so-called 'serious music'). In Klezmer, we are
trying to sound like the synagogue Kantor or just
someone praying - full of emotion and verve but not
worrying about "nice" tone.

Fred Jacobowitz
Kol Simcha band (not the Europeans - WE own the name)
and
100-Proof Klezmer

--- William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net> wrote:
> What would you say to a beginner who asks,
> "What is required in
> order to produce the klezmer tone?"
>
> If anyone here has heard a jazz clarinetist
> named Jim Beatty, does
> he use a variation of 'klezmer technique' (whatever
> this is) --- on his
> Christmas album at least, which is the only album of
> his that I've heard
> --- or is he doing something else that hints at
> klezmer but is
> functionally different?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
>
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