Klarinet Archive - Posting 000558.txt from 2004/07

From: <chamberlaind@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] clarinetists
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:12:31 -0400

Yes, of course Feidman is absolutely amazing too. I heard and saw him in
concert a local Atlanta Synagougue several years ago. I have never heard
anyone play pianissimo like he can. He raises the hair on the back of your
neck.

Kim C
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] clarinetists

> chamberlaind@-----.net wrote:
>
> > Ton:
> >
> > As far as jazz is concerned, my absolute favorite clarinetist is Buddy
> > DeFranco. Eddie Daniels is considered the best of this generation but I
> > prefer Buddy DeFranco because he uses the entire range of the clarinet
and
> > plays with the top notch jazz musicians. Check Amazon. com or CD now.
Eddie
> > Daniels is amazing both technically and musically. He often combines
> > classical approaches with jazz for a very unique sound. There are
several
> > recordings out there.
>
> Delurking for a moment.
>
> DeFranco and Daniels are both wonderful. But...to reprise my positive
> rant after seeing/hearing him in New York last fall...Giora Feidman.
> True, you cannot get the performer in Feidman unless you see him in a
> live performance, but as a musician who plays a "fusion" style of
> Argentinian tango and Klezmer, he's not only alone, he's unsurpassable.
> He is classically trained (former bass clarinetist of the Israel
> Philharmonic). There is a lot of stuff out there, sometimes it is old
> and very hard to find. Check the "usual suspects" stateside, but also
> look for current Feidman stuff is on his website,
> http://www.giorafeidman.de. You link from the current recordings to
> Amazon.de, which has them in stock for the absurd prices you would
> expect based on the dollar-euro exchange. Or you go direct to
> www.amazon.de. One CD (my favorite) is called TangoKlezmer with a
> quartet that includes a wonderful bandoneon player named Raul Jaurena
> who also doubles as composer and arranger on that CD and on the Feidman
> Plays Piazzolla recording. There is also a Mozart CD, a CD of the
> composer Ora Bat Chaim, and things that it's much harder to obtain in
> the States. The caveat with ordering from Germany is you pay rather
> handsomely for the music even with the VAT removed, and then there's the
> shipping charge. Plus you have to be able to fake a few words in
German:-).
>
> Worth it, worth it, worth it.
>
> ken
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