Dmitry Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 A friend asked me to help with a lecture/presentation on the Jewish jazz musicians at his temple. My short list looks something like this - Benny Goodman Artie Shaw Zoot Sims Stan Getz Paul Desmond Buddy Rich [?] Terry Gibbs John Zorn [oy vey] Feel free to throw other names in. The more the merrier. Also, which Jewish melodies/folk songs that received the jazz treatment would you play for a large group of 70 y.o.+ people while they're gumming lox with cream cheese on byalys? ["Jewish Melodies In Jazz Time" is the obvious choice] Quote
couw Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Al Cohn Paul Desmond Alfred Lion Frank Wolff Quote
Д.Д. Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 If you take "jewish" as nationality, not religion, I assume the list could include: Dave Brubeck Lalo Shifrin Don Friedman Denny Zeitlin Steve Kuhn Lee Konitz Quote
Jazz Kat Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 A friend asked me to help with a lecture/presentation on the Jewish jazz musicians at his temple. My short list looks something like this - Benny Goodman Artie Shaw Zoot Sims Stan Getz Paul Desmond Buddy Rich [?] Terry Gibbs John Zorn [oy vey] Feel free to throw other names in. The more the merrier. Also, which Jewish melodies/folk songs that received the jazz treatment would you play for a large group of 70 y.o.+ people while they're gumming lox with cream cheese on byalys? ["Jewish Melodies In Jazz Time" is the obvious choice] Buddy Rich was jewish, yes. Dave Samuels too. Quote
robviti Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) also: Paul Whiteman Harry James Ziggy Elman Mel Torme Herbie Mann Herb Alpert and don't forget great composers who provided a starting point for jazz improvisation: Irving Berlin Jerome Kern George and Ira Gershwin Oscar Hammerstein Richard Rogers Lorenz Hart Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg Edited February 6, 2005 by jazzshrink Quote
J.A.W. Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Teddy Charles (real name: Theodore Charles Cohen). Quote
Larry Kart Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Not Zoot! Steve Lacy Tiny Kahn Warne Marsh (on one side -- the same for Desmond) Mel Lewis Art Hodes Sonny Berman Teddy Charles Shelly Manne Mel Torme Ziggy Elman Victor Feldman George Handy Dick Hyman Chuck Israels David Izenson Chubby Jackson Max Kaminsky Dick Katz Lou Levy Abe Most Sam Most Andre Previn Red Rodney Frank Socolow Cy Touff Quote
Larry Kart Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 You're kidding, Mike -- right? Quote
AllenLowe Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 don't forget Dave Schildkraut - as a matter of fact, in a Downbeat blindfold test, Lee konitz described him as having "a Yiddishe soul." Quote
Michael Fitzgerald Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Uh - yeah. You want I should add Bubbe Miley? Mike Quote
garthsj Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Stan Levey Russ Freeman Milt Bernhart Shorty Rogers was NOT Jewish by religion, but by birth, I believe. Sammy Davis Jr. Max Kaminsky Sol Yaged Quote
mikeweil Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) Besides Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff, many independent jazz (or other type of music) record producers were of Jewish descent: Bob Weinstock Don Schlitten Lester Koenig Herman Lubinsky Max & Sol Weiss Moses Ash Milt Gabler ? Herb Abramson Their importance for the jazz scene can hardly be underestimated. Edited February 6, 2005 by mikeweil Quote
Christiern Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Lew TabackinDave FrishbergLou LevySteve GrossmanJeremy SteigManny KleinLou SteinMarty Grosz (not sure) Quote
Christiern Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 Besides Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff, many independent jazz (or other type of music) record producers were of Jewish descent: Bob Weinstock Don Schlitten Lester Koenig Herman Lubinsky Max & Sol Weiss Moses Ash Milt Gabler ? Herb Abramson Their importance for the jazz scene can hardly be underestimated. Add to that list: Orrin Keepnews Leonard Feather Quote
AllenLowe Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 the way this is going, maybe we need to ask if there are any jazz musicians who AREN'T Jewish - Quote
BFrank Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 George Wein Norman Granz Max Gordon Quote
mikeweil Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 Add to that list: Orrin Keepnews Keepnews, too? What was his original name? Quote
Larry Kart Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 "Keepnews, too? What was his original name?" Mackie Messer Quote
bertrand Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 Good one, Larry! I was at the third and last Miles Davis conference in St. Louis in May 1997. Keepnews was on the panel (also Dan Morgenstern, A.B. Spellman, Jackie Mac, Billy Higgins, Randy Weston, Richard Davis and Sonny Fortune). At some point, Orrin said he was Jewish. This took A.B. Spellman by surprise, and he said that it had never occurred to him that Keepnews was a Jewish name. Bertrand. Quote
Don Brown Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 Neither Dave Brubeck nor Paul Desmond was Jewish, although Paul Desmond apparently thought he was. Desmond's real name was Paul Breitenfeld but I guess that was simply a German name. I can't recall where I read it (it may have been in Ted Gioia's book on west coast jazz) but it's been established that Desmond was not Jewish. Quote
Christiern Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 Allen Lowe: "the way this is going, maybe we need to ask if there are any jazz musicians who AREN'T Jewish." Baby Dodds Dudley Fosdick Washboard Sam Quote
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