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Sam Musiker-Klezmer great

Author: ruben
Date: 2013-10-16 21:51

When I was a child, one of my music teachers was Sam Musiker. He was a great Klezmer musician, but never played this music to us or spoke to us about it. As a tenor-saxophonist, his style was pure Lester Young. In a nutshell, he was a klezmer musician when this music had gone out of fashion with the demise of his parents' generation and he was playing in a jazz style that had been superseded by Charlie Parker's bop. He was also a Classical musician and composer. His teaching could be summed up as every note had to be heartfelt and mean something. There are worse messages to bring across. He died of a heart attack in his forties. The latter period of his life was spent teaching ghetto kids, one of whom was me. Does anybody know anything about him?

rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com

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