{"id":4766,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/jews-in-jazz-at-hebrew-college\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"jews-in-jazz-at-hebrew-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Jews in Jazz &#8211; at Hebrew College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/jewsinjazz.jpg\" align=\"Right\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"283\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\"><strong>Jews in Jazz<br \/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\">at Hebrew College<\/font><\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">Boston \u00ad February 27, 2005<br \/> by Matthew S. Robinson<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  Jewish Americans and African Americans come from different places and different cultures, and yet the similarities have always persevered. Driven from their respective homelands and forced to make it as best they could in strange new lands, both groups were oppressed by the established majorities and kept out of many circles of privilege. Is it any surprise, then, that they both came together in so many ways and so many worlds, including that of artistic expression?  <\/p>\n<p>  Such was the issue discussed at the recent presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebrewcollege.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Hebrew College<\/a> in Newton, MA. With the help of such legends as <strong>Al Jolson<\/strong>, <strong>Irving Berlin<\/strong>, and <strong>George Gershwin<\/strong>, lecturer <strong>Carol Marton<\/strong> (who serves as the choral director for Boston&#8217;s Jewish chorus Koleinu) pointed out the many similarities not only between Jewish and African-American music, but also between Jazz and the Yiddish styles these composers and performers had ringing in their heads. Though started as a lecture, the event quickly opened up into a discussion\/sing-along at which parlor game conjectures became the rule.   <\/p>\n<p>  Did Jews got into Jazz as a means of expression or simply as a way to carry on their ancestral musical traditions in a new idiom? How strong were the links between Jazz and the music of the Old Country? Though nobody can say for sure, Marton and her guests had a fun musical time trying to figure it out.    <\/font>          <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jews in Jazzat Hebrew CollegeBoston \u00ad February 27, 2005 by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}