JEWJAZZ - Live "Report" from Notable Idea, Avremi G

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JEWJAZZ - Live "Report" from Notable Idea, Avremi G

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Last Updated on December 15, 2013

Actually, this Bubee!!! Track ( Music On/Off ) -- even works with this video! What do you think? But, of course, you can try it both ways, and see which works best for you. Hey, it's a Free Country, so let me know!

It was January 2008, and I had to drive through Brooklyn, to pick up my sax stand that I left on a gig. The timing was perfect, cause I already had a recording session at - here we go again... - Yochi Briskman's Recording Studio... So, after I picked up my stand, it finally happened....!!!

For years, Avremi G and I were talkign about "doing a hang" at his studio, but it's never easy to find time, add to it the quick paced life in New York City... So, as I was driving that night, I called Avremi, and we made it happen!

In case you didn't know about Avremi, you probably have seen his work. He is "The Man Behind" A Notable Idea, a "powerhouse" that supplies Jewish Sheet Music worldwide... But don't take my word for it! Just ask any musician who has ever done a Jewish ( "Hasidic") gig, or look for this logo on the sheet music near you...

Meanwhile, let's say you were at a wedding, or a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, or both on the same day ... The event is finished, all, or most of the band had already left. You see an item like this laying around - see a sax stand in this picture below////

So even if you feel only slightly ''mitzvahesque", please remember this webpage, and this fact:

you'd be making some sax player very happy, if you make sure that he, or she, somehow gets that sax stand back!!! All it'll take would be a few phone calls, and you'll be a hero for returning that item to its owner! Hey, musicians need all the help they can get! Just ask one!

If even one of the musicians is still around, packing to leave, as him to call that sax player that just played at this simcha... That will give you an instant answer - Yes it's mine... No, it's not mine...

Another option would be to give give that item to the caterer...

Either way, you might end up being a hero!!!

In my case, the hero was Yosef Itzchak Ben Shimon, of http://benshimon.com/ -- thus a Public Thank You! is warranted!!! Hey, Good People, Good Deeds should be NOTABLE... at least sometimes, right?!

P.S. And speaking of Ideas, this one could be pretty Notable!!!

If you don't like Avremi G, or just want to mess him up, ask him to notate this version of the legendary Tico Tico! This is a must (click to hear it) , particularly if you are a musician. Be sure to hear all of it! Performance by a pianist, Stefano Bollani.

Offer Avremi, let's say, a MILLION DOLLARS?!, to write it out note for note, like a Sonata, let's by Chopin for example, and give him a few days to do it!

Better yet, ask some band to play it exactly like that, note for note, at your Simcha (wedding?), and I don't mean plugging in a CD, or an iPod, or an iPhone! I mean have them play it LIVE!, for real... Tell them that's only way you'll hire them!!! And that it has to be played by nobody other than the boss, as a the Bride and Groom's First Dance, that they have been practicing for months!!!

And better still, ask them to hire Avreim to have it notated and bound, as gifts for all your guest! Such request in no big deal for Avremi G and his A Notable Idea!

The guests will have something to practice when they get home, and everyone is happy:)! -- both the Avremi and the band will be working..., and everyone will go nuts:)!

Stay tuned... Full Story coming?..., time permitting...?!

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