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TitleUri Caine and his Jewishly influenced music
Date Created2013
Other Date2013-05 (degree)
Extentv, 198 p. : ill.
DescriptionThe Introduction to Uri Caine and His Jewishly Influenced Music contains brief reviews of Mike Gerber's Jazz Jews and Jeffrey Melnick's A Right to Sing the Blues, and a definition of Jewishly influenced music. Part I is a detailed biography of Caine's life as described by Caine in interviews. Part II seeks to understand Caine's work through his roles as leader, composer, sideman, arranger, collaborator and keyboardist, and it looks at a few examples of his Jewishly influenced music. Caine has won the Down Beat Talent Deserving Wider Recognition award for the Jazz Artist and Electric Keyboardist categories, the International Composers' Hit award for Best Mahler CD and he was the first jazz artist to be named the artistic director of the musical segment of the Venice Biennial. Caine's early JMT and recent Winter & Winter recordings are discussed in the Leader section. Caine's breadth and compositional process is described in the Composer section. Caine's fellow musicians praise his humility and talent in the Sideman section. Caine blurs the line as an Arranger/Collaborator with his composing and interpreting prowess. Caine discusses his familiarity with the Korg organ, the Fender Rhodes and the piano while outlining his practice routines in the Keyboardist section. Finally, this Master's thesis presents an analysis of three of Caine's Mahler-inspired works, and it shows how those pieces are Jewishly influenced. Caine, born and raised in Philadelphia, is known as a jazz pianist who played with the great Bootsie Barnes, Hank Mobley, Philly Joe Jones and others. But Caine's desire to push the musical envelope has led him to work with John Zorn, the Radical Jewish Culture series (on the Tzadik label), the Downtown music scene in New York, the more commercially successful Grover Washington Jr. and a plethora of classical musicians. Caine has reworked, arranged, composed in the style of and/or interpreted Mahler, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Schumann and Schoenberg. Uri Caine is an extraordinary musician who cannot be defined in one box, one pigeon hole, one genre or one style. Uri Caine is a creative and prolific leader, composer, sideman, arranger, collaborator and keyboardist.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
NoteIncludes vita
Noteby Jeffrey David Benatar
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.