The forward has an article on a Conservative Texan Cantor who is attempting to sing cantorial music with a jazz flavor. As the article explains:
Trained in the vocal cantorial tradition at New York City's Jewish Theological Seminary, Blumofe clearly understood what chazanut had in common with the jazz music that he had learned. "The teachers I have had made it clear that chazanut is very much an improvisational art," Blumofe said in an interview with the Forward. "Just like in jazz, we have charts, but it is up to the cantor to express the prayer and bring it to life."
I understand the refrence to Jazz and Cantorial being similar from the point of improv but this sounds kind of strange. I wonder if Rosenblatt is rolling in his grave.
Trained in the vocal cantorial tradition at New York City's Jewish Theological Seminary, Blumofe clearly understood what chazanut had in common with the jazz music that he had learned. "The teachers I have had made it clear that chazanut is very much an improvisational art," Blumofe said in an interview with the Forward. "Just like in jazz, we have charts, but it is up to the cantor to express the prayer and bring it to life."
I understand the refrence to Jazz and Cantorial being similar from the point of improv but this sounds kind of strange. I wonder if Rosenblatt is rolling in his grave.
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2 comments:
Yosselle Rosenblatt actually performed in the broadway show, "The Jazz Singer", which is about a cantor singing Jazz.
Incorrect!
In 1927, when Warner Brothers set about casting the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, Rosenblatt was the obvious choice to play Jolson's father, the elderly hazzan. Despite the proffered remuneration of $100,000, he refused the role because it would have entailed singing Kol nidrei in a make-believe setting. Contrary to popular belief, he would not even agree to dub the singing voice of Warner Oland, the actor who did play the hazzan.
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