Jazz and Its Discontents by Francis Davis

Author:Francis Davis [FRANCIS DAVIS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2011-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

LATELY BYRON HAS CHANNELED HIS INTEREST IN KLEZMER INTO THE MUSIC of Mickey Katz, a clarinetist, singer, and noveltymeister of the 1950s, for whom indigestion was the ultimate Jewish experience—or so you might think from his “Bagle Call Rag,” “Don’t Let the Schmaltz Get in Your Eyes,” “How Much Is That Pickle in the Window,” and his devastating Mel Brooks-ian schlemielization of Tennessee Ernie’s “Sixteen Tons”:

To eat a piece kishke,

you must have koyech.

Just like a shtayn,

it lays in your boyech.

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