Short for Something

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Short for Something
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Studio album by New Klezmer Trio
Released June 27, 2000
Recorded November 1999 at Bay Records, Berkeley, California
Genre Jazz, Klezmer
Length65:41
Label Tzadik TZ 7141
Producer Ben Goldberg
New Klezmer Trio chronology
Melt Zonk Rewire
(1995)		Short for Something
(2000)

Short for Something is the third album by the New Klezmer Trio, Ben Goldberg - clarinet, Dan Seamans - bass, and Kenny Wollesen - drums, which was released on the Tzadik label in 2000. [1]

Ben Goldberg Jazz composer and clarinettist

Ben Goldberg is an American clarinet player and composer.

Kenny Wollesen American musician

Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.

Tzadik Records American record label

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his review for Allmusic, Stacia Proefrock observed "Their music is fully embedded in modern creative avant-garde jazz, yet still manages to nod its head to the sounds of old Cracow, creating a cauldron of spiritual yearnings, sadness, chaos, visions, and grace". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Ben Goldberg except as indicated

  1. "The Because Of" - 7:09
  2. "Short for Something" - 3:56
  3. "Fast" - 10:47
  4. "Sequential" - 0:50
  5. "Obsessive" - 2:35
  6. "All Chords Stand for Other Chords" - 5:41
  7. "Fomus Homus" - 5:42
  8. "Seven Phrases" - 4:27
  9. "Complicated" - 3:42
  10. "LBD" - 2:42
  11. "Halves" - 6:02
  12. "Fly in the Ointment" - 3:08
  13. "Freylekhs fun der Khupe" (Traditional) - 4:31

Personnel

Clarinet type of woodwind instrument

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist.

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

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References

  1. ↑ Tzadik catalogue accessed January 10, 2014
  2. 1 2 Proefrock, Stacia. New Klezmer Trio – Short for Something > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 10, 2014.
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