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Panorama Jazz Band - Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym ("Leading the In-Laws Home")

from Song-of-the-Month Club: Good Music For You by Panorama Jazz Band and Panorama Brass Band plus special guests

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This is our 50th track in a row, going all the way back to May of 2014! Wish us luck on the next 50.

Klezmer music originates from the Jews of Eastern Europe and we learned today's selection from the repertoire of clarinet wild man, Naftule Brandwein (1884-1963). Born into a family of working musicians in Galicia, Poland (now in the Ukraine), he emigrated to New York City in 1906 and soon started calling himself "the King of Jewish music." Between 1922 and 1941 he made a batch of recordings which, taken as a whole, is one of the strongest influences on today's generation of klezmer musicians.

The title, "Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym" (Yiddish for "Leading the In-Laws Home"), which Brandwein recorded with Abe Schwartz's Orchestra in February 1923, is probably an arbitrary one since melodies were traditionally never given names. But it refers to what may have been a wedding custom back in the old country and, at the very least, does conjure a sweet image of musicians performing their final duty of the evening, escorting the guests home through the village or neighborhood.

A zhok is a Yiddish dance in a limping 3/8 rhythm. For this one, we shifted multi-instrumentalist Mark Rubin from tuba to tenor banjo. Mark knows from klezmer and it was to him we turned for just the right zhok tempo, something that the old folks would feel right at home with. The melody takes place on a D Freygish scale which, although it uses a major 3rd, has a minor 2nd, 6th and 7th, giving it that haunting Middle-Eastern sound. Clarinet delivers the line at the top over trombone, banjo, tuba and drums playing only on beats 1 and 3. Then, on the repeat, alto sax and accordion fall in to open up the sound. The climactic moment in the form occurs at the top of each C section when a fake to the minor IV chord leads briefly to the relative major of Bb before landing, with some inevitability, back on D. At the return to the top, accordion and saxophone each have a go before we recap the C section, drop off the in-laws and go put our feet up.

People in New Orleans dance home to music that is quite different from this - different groove, different sound, whole different vibe. This tune is slow, stately, mysterious and sings of a deep gratitude, almost weeping for joy. But what's so cool is the fact that there are many diverse ways of doing all the same things that people all over the world have always done: celebrate a wedding, mourn a death or make a party. Here in Panoramaland we enjoy trying out as many of those as we can.

By the way, this is Panorama's 4th recording of a Brandwein composition. If you like this one, also check out:

"Terkishe Yale V'yove Tantz" (on "Another Hot Night In February," 2003)
"Wie Bist Die Gevesen Vor Prohibition?" (on "Panoramaland," 2005)
and "Oy Tate, S'iz Git!" (on "Come Out Swingin'," 2011).

Much gratitude to Wikipedia and the hundreds of writers and editors who make it what it is. We've donated to support their work and YOU can too!

Thanks also to Panorama friend Stewart Eastman for help with the track notes.

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from Song-of-the-Month Club: Good Music For You, track released June 1, 2018
Recorded April 19, 2018 at Oak Street Recording, New Orleans, LA

Panorama Jazz Band:
Ben Schenck - Clarinet
Byron Asher - Alto Saxophone
Charlie Halloran - Trombone
Michael Ward-Bergeman - Accordion
Mark Rubin - Tenor Banjo
Matt Perrine - Tuba
Doug Garrison - Drum Set

Music by Naftule Brandwein (PD), arranged by Ben Schenck (Snack Daddy Music/ASCAP) and Mark Rubin (Jew of Oklahoma Music/BMI).
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Lu Rojas at Oak Street Recording, New Orleans, LA
Cover photo by Greg Miles.
Graphic design by Ben Schenck

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The Panorama Jazz Band and the Panorama Brass Band have been working steadily in New Orleans and beyond since 1995. Many hundreds of nightclub gigs, festivals, weddings, crawfish boils and Mardi Gras parades have added to this community of musicians' collective experience, all of which they bring to each of their recordings. ... more

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