PBS "Frontline": Maurice el Medioni

i just saw a fantastic PBS TV "Frontline"
segment on Jewish-Algerian Marseille pianist
Maurice el Medioni.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/france/index.html

he's playing in 12edo ... really great,
and an interesting mix of Jewish and Arab
musical styles, with a few American jazz
bits (notably rhumba and boogie-woogie)
thrown in.

-monz

yikes! i only now got around to reading
the "cliff notes" thread from the past few
days on this list ... little did i know
last night, when i posted this, how
relevant it was to that discussion.

at the end of the program, the narrator made
a comment (i'm paraphrasing to the best of
my recollection) about Medioni's mix of
Jewish and Arab musical elements:

"one must note the irony in this situation where
peoples whose musics have such similar roots are
struggling to find ways to talk to each other."

-monz

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> i just saw a fantastic PBS TV "Frontline"
> segment on Jewish-Algerian Marseille pianist
> Maurice el Medioni.
>
> http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/france/index.html
>
> he's playing in 12edo ... really great,
> and an interesting mix of Jewish and Arab
> musical styles, with a few American jazz
> bits (notably rhumba and boogie-woogie)
> thrown in.