Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime

Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime Artist: Terry Gibbs
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731458967323
EAN: 0731458967323
ASIN: B00006DU0I


Release Date: 2002-08-06

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Tracks:

  1. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
  2. Papirossen (Cigarettes)
  3. Kazochok (Russian Dance)
  4. Vuloch (A Folk Dance)
  5. My Yiddishe Momme
  6. And The Angels Sing
  7. S & S
  8. Shaine Une Zees (Pretty & Sweet)
  9. Nyah Shere (New Dance)

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great Gibbs gig for at least three reasons........2007-03-09

Terry's a bit more subdued on this outing than most, but it's a swinging session if a trifle "over-arranged." Terry imports a klezmer band for some highlighting and variety, but it would have been better if he'd left the ethnic touches to his own spirited group. In his autobiography, "Good Vibes," Terry explains that the session was one of his most enjoyable and that he wanted to call it "Jew Jazz" but that Mercury changed his original title.

The album, you'd think, would remain in print if only for the presence of Alice McCleod, soon to become Ms. John Coltrane. In the book, Terry says of the date, "I was the Jew, and this African-American woman pianist was stealing the show!" (Personally, I think he's being excessively modest, perhaps conscious of Alice's later accomplishments and near-iconic stature in American music. Unlike Terry Pollard, another Detroit female pianist who played with Terry Gibbs, Alice doesn't "lock" into the time and swing; her many-noted, fluid and legato lines are strangely unengaging in this context.)

4 out of 5 stars Klezmer-Jazz ...Fusion?.......2006-05-09

While I dig the Jewish standards and vibist Terry Gibbs compositions presented here,I'm not so sure about the arrangements/collaboration with his brother and drummer Sol Gage.
For me,if this was intended to be Jazz-Klezmer fusion-it just doesn't entirely fuse and as an experiment,I think the balance is a little off,beginning with the first track 'Bi Mir Bis Du Shoen'('To Me You're Beautiful' in Yiddish)which begins and ends with short riffs by Sol Gage's Klezmer- 'Jewish-style group-with
Gibbs' jazz quartet taking over everything else;I think pianist Alice McCord(who later married John Coltrane)steals the show.

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