{"id":31372,"date":"2024-02-07T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=31372"},"modified":"2024-03-06T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:19:23","slug":"jammin-with-some-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/07\/jammin-with-some-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMMIN’ WITH SOME SALMON"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\n\u201cStruttin\u2019 with<\/strong><\/span> Some Barbecue\u201d by Lil Hardin Armstrong is probably the best song title. It has action, smell and humor. The worst song title is \u201cRise Up to New Jewish Music.\u201d Some Jewish bands go for that sort of thing. (Anything “New” is old.)<\/p>\n

The worst name of a klezmer band is the Klezmer Conservatory Band, They are a good band but a bad name. \u201cYiddishe Cup,\u201d the name, gets the job done around town, but doesn\u2019t land us any concerts at cool, mohel\u2019s-edge music festivals. \u201cYiddishe Cup\u201d is bubbe\u2019s procus<\/em> (stuffed cabbage). Very soggy.<\/p>\n

I once changed the band\u2019s name to Funk A Deli but that only confused people. Every Purim, a synagogue scheduler emailed and ask what the band\u2019s name was going to be for that year.<\/p>\n

Last month, when<\/strong><\/span> I was on vacation in Mexico, I was jamming on the street (which I often do on vacations to meet people), and\u00a0 I was playing “Misty,” when an American couple asked me if I knew any klezmer. I said, “So happens I do!”\u00a0 The couple was from Madison, Wisconsin, and had hired Yid Vicious for their wedding. I\u2019ve always liked “Yid Vicious,” the name.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which,\u00a0 I was playing a gig recently at a nursing home, Menorah Park, where the fairly new activities director came up to me and said, “Do you know any Jewish songs?”<\/p>\n

I said, “Do you know who you’re talking to!” She didn’t. She explained that the new owners of the nursing home\u00a0requested all musicians play at least “4 to 6 Jewish songs.” I said, “We can play 999 Jewish tunes if you want.”<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup’s<\/span><\/strong> last CD, Klezmer Guy,<\/em> 2009, was almost called Jammin’ With Some Salmon<\/em>. I test-drove that title, and nobody understood it. \u201cNobody,\u201d meaning my wife, Alice. I didn\u2019t run the title by anybody else. I didn\u2019t want the aggravation of multiple artistic input. I wasn\u2019t running a democracy. I settled on Klezmer Guy<\/em> and started this blog, Klezmer Guy: Real Music & Real Estate,<\/em> to promote the album.<\/p>\n

–Bert Struttin<\/p>\n

P.S. To purchase a Klezmer Guy<\/em> CD, contact Alan Douglass. He has a few cartons in his basement.<\/p>\n

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Alan Douglass (above) has cornered the market on “Klezmer Guy” CDs<\/p><\/div>\n

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