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The only advice I ever gave Yiddishe Cup’s<\/strong><\/span> drummer, Don Friedman, was buy the roasted, milled flax seed with blueberries at Trader Joe’s.<\/p>\n I don’t tell him how to play drums.<\/p>\n Our keyboard player, Alan Douglass, tells our drummer how to play.\u00a0 In fact Alan tells everybody how to play.\u00a0 Good, somebody has to do it.<\/p>\n Except some guys don’t like being told how to play.<\/p>\n Me, I’m open to constructive <\/strong><\/span>criticism.<\/p>\n Danny Rubenstein<\/a>, the legendary klezmer clarinetist, told me I play with “a lot of guts but little technique.”\u00a0 I’m OK with that.\u00a0 Beats the alternative.<\/p>\n I like wailing.\u00a0 I like Kramtweiss <\/a>and Brandwein<\/a> \u2014 big wailers.\u00a0 (Kramtweiss and Brandwein recorded in the 1920s.)\u00a0 But the older I get, the more I prefer Tarras<\/a> \u2014 Mr. Subtle, Mr. Refined.\u00a0 Dave Tarras (1897-1989) was the Sinatra of klez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The only advice I ever gave Yiddishe Cup’s drummer, Don Friedman, was buy the roasted, milled flax seed with blueberries at Trader Joe’s. I don’t tell him how to play drums. Our keyboard player, Alan Douglass, tells our drummer how to play.\u00a0 In fact Alan tells everybody how to play.\u00a0 Good, somebody has to do […]<\/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-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}