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I backed<\/strong><\/span> up a star. A minor star. A minor,<\/em> minor star: David \u201cDudu\u201d Fisher. You\u2019ve probably never heard of him, but he\u2019s big in the Jewish music world, and he came to Cleveland and needed a backup band.<\/p>\n The usual Cleveland jazz dudes were called in to back up Dudu. These Cleveland guys play for touring Broadway shows at Playhouse Square and have music-school degrees. These musicians have bio notes that read \u201cshared the stage with blah blah and blah blah.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019ve shared the stage, too. Yiddishe Cup played at a Dayton, Ohio, folk festival gig right before Jon Hendricks. War, too,\u00a0 (Detroit) and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Akron). I haven\u2019t actually played with<\/em> anybody. Correction: a tune with Vulfpeck in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n The reed<\/strong><\/span> player in the David “Dudu” Fisher backup band wasn’t comfortable with the clarinet charts. He was a jazz-sax guy and the klez clarinet parts were a bit too intricate. So I got a call. I practiced a lot and did OK. We read and improvised on jazz, klez and classical charts. I can read music! The pro jazz dudes said I did a good job. That meant something to me.<\/p>\n *”Dudu” is a Hebrew\/Israeli diminutive for David.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I backed up a star. A minor star. A minor, minor star: David \u201cDudu\u201d Fisher. You\u2019ve probably never heard of him, but he\u2019s big in the Jewish music world, and he came to Cleveland and needed a backup band. The usual Cleveland jazz dudes were called in to back up Dudu. These Cleveland guys play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26976"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27675,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions\/27675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}