Tanz! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers

Dave Tarras & Musicker Brothers - Tanz! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers

Tanz! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers
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Artist: Dave Tarras & Musicker Brothers
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-04-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Intro: Rumania
  2. Gypsy
  3. The Romanian Fantasy
  4. Tango
  5. Tanz! Bulgar
  6. Sam's Bulgar
  7. Der Yemenite Tanz
  8. Rumania
  9. Der Neier Doina
  10. Der Cholum Fun Yid
  11. Sam Shielt
  12. Silkene Pajamas
  13. A Bulgar
  14. Papirossen
  15. Silkene Pajamas (Alternate Take)
  16. Der Neier Doina (Alternate Take)

Music reviews of Tanz! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers

Music Review: Ambrosia
Rating: 5 Stars

The back cover of Tanz trumpets its 16 cuts as "simply one of the greatest klezmer recordings ever issued," a seemingly fantastic claim that also happens to be true, particularly if listeners equate clarinet-dominated orchestras--and solos--with ambrosia.

Dave Tarras (1897 to 1989) was a Klezmer clarinetist of legendary talent, schooled in classical music by his Ukrainian Jewish family, which had performed for generations. Tarras' father was a wedding poet (badkhn) and trombonist, who began teaching his son to read and write music, and to play the flute, when he only nine. At 13, dissatisfied with the flute's quality, Tarras studied clarinet with a local player for three weeks before he could "play a little," meaning he was expert enough to play at a non-Jewish wedding.

Tarras was exposed to but somewhat insulated from the brutal World War I era Ukrainian anti-Semitism; he escaped serving in the Tsar's army by playing in a military band and quickly graduating to conductor. He also conveniently played the guitar and balalaika.

By 1921, though, pogroms and the Russian Revolution had overwhelmed the family and Tarras left for New York, where his older sister had emigrated some time earlier. He started in a furrier factory at $10 a week, working up to $50 for a 50-hour week, with overtime.

After a year, he finally replaced the clarinet that had been destroyed by fumigation at Ellis Island and took a small job in a Brooklyn catering hall. He was soon playing in a band with Joseph Cherniavsky's Yiddish American Jazz Band.

One cut, Rumanian Fantasy, is also available on Tarras' Klezmer Music 1925-56. But otherwise, this is music I have not heard elsewhere. And every bar is brilliant, from trills and harmonies to the rich embroidery of a Middle Eastern Yemenite Tanz.

The recording was cut in 1955 at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in New York, but remastering has eliminated any tinny quality it might have had then. Distilled here is a set of remarkably colorful and vibrant quality, as if it had been produced yesterday. If notes could cry, this CD would produce a flood every time one played it. Alyssa A. Lappen

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When Tanz! was released in 1955 its revolutionary blend of klezmer and swing failed to excite fans of either style and the LP promptly disappeared without a trace. Which was too bad because the record not only offered an intriguing vision of what klezmer could have become, it featured some of the finest playing by two of klezmer's most important figures, the legendary clarinet players Dave Tarras and Sam Musiker. The 14 tracks were arranged by Musiker, a Gene Krupa Band veteran, who skillfully combined the wild melodic flights and rhythmic drive of klezmer with the sophisticated harmonies of jazz. Tarras is one of those musicians whose playing is always wonderful, but on tracks like his composition "Tango," or the traditional tune "Gypsy," he seems particularly inspired by the innovative settings. Tanz! was unjustly ignored when it was realized in 1955. Don't make the same mistake with this reissue. --Michael Simmons

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