Tanz! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers

Tanz! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers Artist: Dave Tarras & Musicker Brothers
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Buying details


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 696998632028
EAN: 0696998632028
ASIN: B00006640F


Release Date: 2002-04-30

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Listmania:

  1. Klezmer!
  2. Yet more things I have enjoyed recently

Tracks:

  1. Intro: Rumania
  2. Gypsy
  3. The Romanian Fantasy
  4. Tango
  5. Tanz! Bulgar
  6. Sam's Bulgar
  7. Der Yemenite Tanz
  8. Rumania
  9. Der Neier Doina
  10. Der Cholum Fun Yid
  11. Sam Shielt
  12. Silkene Pajamas
  13. A Bulgar
  14. Papirossen
  15. Silkene Pajamas (Alternate Take)
  16. Der Neier Doina (Alternate Take)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Klezmer, but not that swinging.......2006-07-21

After reading the readers' reviews of this record, I expected something more swinging (like Benny Goodman plays Klezmer). Instead, the rhythms are very European-traditional sounding. That's not a bad thing; I love this album too. Dave Tarras' clarinet playing is impeccable and Sam Musiker's arrangements are great. If you want to hear a more swinging approach to Klezmer, try Mickey Katz: Simcha Time.

5 out of 5 stars A Classic.......2002-11-07

This is one of those albums that should be on the shelf of every Jewish Music Listener. With wonderful informative updated linernotes by Henry Sapoznik, this album is put into a perfect historical perspective.

5 out of 5 stars Ambrosia.......2002-08-10

The back cover of Tanz trumpets its 16 cuts as "simply one of the greatest klezmer recordings ever issued," a seemingly fantastic claim that also happens to be true, particularly if listeners equate clarinet-dominated orchestras--and solos--with ambrosia.

Dave Tarras (1897 to 1989) was a Klezmer clarinetist of legendary talent, schooled in classical music by his Ukrainian Jewish family, which had performed for generations. Tarras' father was a wedding poet (badkhn) and trombonist, who began teaching his son to read and write music, and to play the flute, when he only nine. At 13, dissatisfied with the flute's quality, Tarras studied clarinet with a local player for three weeks before he could "play a little," meaning he was expert enough to play at a non-Jewish wedding.

Tarras was exposed to but somewhat insulated from the brutal World War I era Ukrainian anti-Semitism; he escaped serving in the Tsar's army by playing in a military band and quickly graduating to conductor. He also conveniently played the guitar and balalaika.

By 1921, though, pogroms and the Russian Revolution had overwhelmed the family and Tarras left for New York, where his older sister had emigrated some time earlier. He started in a furrier factory at $10 a week, working up to $50 for a 50-hour week, with overtime.

After a year, he finally replaced the clarinet that had been destroyed by fumigation at Ellis Island and took a small job in a Brooklyn catering hall. He was soon playing in a band with Joseph Cherniavsky's Yiddish American Jazz Band.

One cut, Rumanian Fantasy, is also available on Tarras' Klezmer Music 1925-56. But otherwise, this is music I have not heard elsewhere. And every bar is brilliant, from trills and harmonies to the rich embroidery of a Middle Eastern Yemenite Tanz.

The recording was cut in 1955 at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in New York, but remastering has eliminated any tinny quality it might have had then. Distilled here is a set of remarkably colorful and vibrant quality, as if it had been produced yesterday. If notes could cry, this CD would produce a flood every time one played it. Alyssa A. Lappen

5 out of 5 stars Hypnotic, Swinging, Amazing.......2002-05-09

What I know about klezmer, you can put in a thimble -- but this disc has not left my player in days. This is a rare recording (according to the liner notes), and is really addictive. Five stars and fabulous!

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