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Metropolitan Klezmer: Comes Love (Yinglish version)

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Channel: Eve Sicular · 2009 · Music

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Swinging with a bit of Latin groove, "Comes Love" sung by Melissa Fogarty @Drom - English with Yiddish interludes.

Fab horn solos! Pam Fleming: trumpet, Reut Regev: trombone, Debra Kreisberg: sax. Metropolitan Klezmer's arrangement (by drummer/bandleader Eve Sicular) interweaves the classic standard with strands from two Yiddish tunes, both "Libes Shmertsn" [Love Pangs] vocal tritone melody & an instrumental interlude from traditional folksong "Shvartse Oygn Hobn Fayer" [Dark Eyes Have Fire]. Sparks of burning yearning fly through the lyrics of all three songs.

"Comes Love" by Lew Brown, Sammy Stept & Charles Tobias was originally made famous by Billie Holiday; we only realized a moment before this April 7, 2009 performance that we were playing on Billie Holiday's birthday too! (Thanks to New York City's WKCR for the broadcast reminder all day.) "Libes Shmertsn" [alternate transliteration Liebes Schmerzen] was written by Joseph Rumshinsky for the 1923 Yiddish musical "Shtarker fun Libe." Metropolitan Klezmer's full-length (instrumental) version of Libes Shmertsn full-length is on our first CD, YIDDISH FOR TRAVELERS; this Yinglish arrangement of "Comes Love" appears as the Klezbonus track on Metropolitan Klezmer's latest disc, TRAVELING SHOW.

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER: 
Ismail Butera - accordion, Pam Fleming - trumpet, Melissa Fogarty - vocals, Michael Hess - violin, Dave Hofstra - bass, Debra Kreisberg - clarinet & sax, Reut Regev - trombone, Eve Sicular - drums, bandleader.

Thanks to Rich Brotman & Sasha Wortzel for videography; edited by Rich Brotman at Magnetic Post, NYC.

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