{"id":28126,"date":"2020-11-04T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28126"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:26:52","slug":"the-jewish-music-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/the-jewish-music-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"THE JEWISH MUSIC RANKINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The Irish<\/strong><\/span> rank musicians with fiddle contests. So do bluegrass associations. There is a $50,000 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. I rank Jewish musicians . . .<\/p>\n<p>#1. Alan Douglass. Keyboards. Yiddishe Cup. His big hit is \u201cGentile on My Mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#2. Ari Davidow, who operates the KlezmerShack website in the basement of the Brandeis student union by the foosball tables. Entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>#3. Steven Greenman. Violinist. Born Steven Chemlawn.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>#4. Gary Gould, <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Cali<\/span><\/span> King of Klez. He&#8217;s the bandleader to Hollywood stars, and sometimes he goes to Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p>#5. Hankus Netsky, a k a The Great One. The Klezmer Hall of Fame waived the waiting period for The Great One.<\/p>\n<p>#6. Bert Stratton. The Ohio\/Michigan\/Indiana distributor of\u00a0 Yiddishe Cup coffee mugs.<\/p>\n<p>#7. Margot Leverett. An award-winning mixologist of klez and bluegrass.<\/p>\n<p>#8. Lori Cahan-Simon. She produced the Yiddisher Soul Train, KYW-TV, Philadelphia, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>#9. Marc Adler.<\/strong><\/span> He invented the clarinet suck vac, available only at Adler\u2019s Hardware, Providence, R.I.<\/p>\n<p>#10. Cookie Lavagetto. Third base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish rank musicians with fiddle contests. So do bluegrass associations. There is a $50,000 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. I rank Jewish musicians . . . #1. Alan Douglass. Keyboards. Yiddishe Cup. His big hit is \u201cGentile on My Mind.\u201d #2. Ari Davidow, who operates the KlezmerShack website in the [&hellip;]<\/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-28126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28126","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=28126"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28244,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28126\/revisions\/28244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}