Real Music & Real Estate . . .

Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.
 

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.
 

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)
 

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.
 

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.


 
 

THE JEWISH MUSIC RANKINGS

by Bert Stratton

The Irish rank musicians with fiddle contests. So do bluegrass associations. There is a $50,000 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. I rank Jewish musicians . . .

#1. Alan Douglass. Keyboards. Yiddishe Cup. His big hit is “Gentile on My Mind.”

#2. Ari Davidow, who operates the KlezmerShack website in the basement of the Brandeis student union by the foosball tables. Entrepreneur.

#3. Steven Greenman. Violinist. Born Steven Chemlawn.

#4. Gary Gould, the Cali King of Klez. He’s the bandleader to Hollywood stars, and sometimes he goes to Santa Monica.

#5. Hankus Netsky, a k a The Great One. The Klezmer Hall of Fame waived the waiting period for The Great One.

#6. Bert Stratton. The Ohio/Michigan/Indiana distributor of  Yiddishe Cup coffee mugs.

#7. Margot Leverett. An award-winning mixologist of klez and bluegrass.

#8. Lori Cahan-Simon. She produced the Yiddisher Soul Train, KYW-TV, Philadelphia, 1970.

#9. Marc Adler. He invented the clarinet suck vac, available only at Adler’s Hardware, Providence, R.I.

#10. Cookie Lavagetto. Third base.

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4 comments

1 Rev Don Friedman { 11.04.20 at 9:23 am }

Let’s not forget Clara Netsky for having the most instrumental name.

2 Bill { 11.04.20 at 12:06 pm }

Along with Leverett, Nefesh Mtn also good if you’re into twangy/jewish fusion.

3 marc adler { 11.11.20 at 2:03 pm }

Bert, My mother is kvelling. I promise to put all my energy in improving clarinet technology.By the way we help many musicians at my store. Last week a musician friend came in (steel guitar/tenor sax) . His adjustable stool kept falling down. I gave him some hose clamps and washers and it did the trick. Adler’s Hardware and musical instrument repair service.

4 marc adler { 11.11.20 at 2:07 pm }

Actually I sent Frank London a case of plungers years ago.
He used the ends as mutes.

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