[JPL] Sunday Jazz Trivia: Hanukkah

[Nou Dadoun]

You guys are good (as well as being night-owls, I posted the questions after
2 am here 5 am on the east coast and got answers within the hour!); I was
going to mention the latter two recordings in response to the recent post
about Jewish jazz along with one other favorite, Cannonball Adderley's
Fiddler on the Roof - good old Julian prayed every time he picked up the
horn, Happy Hanukkah everybody! ... N


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Jazz Promo Services <
jazzpromo at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Since Hanukkah starts tonight seemed like a good place for some related
> jazz
> trivia, shouldn't be too hard but no googling!
>
> 1- This jazz piano pioneer was not only Jewish, he performed as a cantor at
> a Harlem Synagogue, who was he?  Willie ŒThe Lion¹ Smith (From Goshen,
> NY...Up here in my neck of the woods)
>
> 2- Terry Gibbs recording "Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime" had
> klezmer/jazz performances of such classics as Bei Mir Bist du Schon and My
> Yiddish Mama, but it was also the recording debut of a musician who would
> go
> on to perform in one of the classic avant-garde groups of the sixties.  Who
> was this pianist?-Alice Coltrane
>
> 3- This New York-based musician recorded a tribute to Joel Grey's father,
> what was the album?
>
> Don Byron Plays The Music Of Mickey Katz
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