Michael Winograd “Neier Doina” into “Der Cholum Fun Yid” • Americana Highways

Michael Winograd “Neier Doina” into “Der Cholum Fun Yid”

Americana Highways is internet hosting this premiere of Michael Winograd’s new dwell model of the songs “Neier Doina” into “Der Cholum Fun Yid” from his forthcoming album Michael Winograd performs TANZ!, set for launch in early December. The album was produced by Michael Winograd, recorded by Christopher McDonald and Jeremy McDonald, and combined and mastered by Don Godwin. 

The dwell occasion was produced by Michael Winograd and Aaron Bendich Recorded dwell in live performance on the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan on February 16, 2023.

“Neier Doina” into “Der Cholum Fun Yid” is Michael Winograd on clarinet; Marine Goldwaser on clarinet; Alec Spiegelman on tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and clarinet; Frank London on trumpet; Will Holshouser on accordion; Carmen Staaf on piano; Zoe Guigueno on bass; and David Licht on drums, with Katie Scheele on English horn.

People don’t consider klezmer as American people music however give this a hear and also you’ll hear it’s undeniably so.  This assortment of jewish people instrumentals, a contemporary revisioning of the 1956 album bu Clarinets Sam Musiker. Kick again and lose your self on this, it’ll be price it. 

As Michael Winograd tells us, “The songs ‘Der Neier Doina’ and ‘Der Cholum Fun Yid,’ are a pair of original compositions by clarinetist Sam Musiker. A fun aspect of the original 1956 album is that while Muisker and his counterpart clarinetist Dave Tarras trade off as soloists, they also jump between playing roles as the “folklorist” and the “modernist.” Given that Sam cut up his time between Jazz and Klezmer, this got here naturally to him. These songs exhibit his folkier, extra conventional facet. He composed this doina, and gradual hora (or zhok) with extra conventional boundaries than a few of his different songs on the album (“Sam’s Bulgar” e/g,) but even so.. he simply couldn’t assist drawing on his deep sense of contemporary concord and method to provide an additional shine to those numbers. These are a very enjoyable set to play in live performance – as they offer the band a possibility to essentially lay into the schmaltziness of the model. Every observe and phrase is deeply drenched in ashkenazi musical fats, and sops with custom. And whereas a few of the sooner, extra boisterous tunes on TANZ! carry the listener in, it’s typically these wealthy slower ones that pack punch!” 

You can discover the music right here.

Check out some tour dates:

December 17 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Armory (Boston Jewish Music Festival)
December 18 – Brooklyn, NY – Center for New Jewish Culture (17 Eastern Parkway)

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