{ "id": "klezmer_jazz_fusion", "name": "Klezmer-jazz fusion", "family": "jazz", "lineage": "1980s-and-onward American-Jewish jazz-fusion style integrating klezmer modal-and-melodic vocabulary with jazz-improvisational practice. Don Byron's Plays the Music of Mickey Katz (1993) and the Klezmatics 1980s-onward recordings constitute the canonical type-specimens; the parallel Frank London-led ensembles and David Krakauer's solo work extended the genre. Distinguished from broader klezmer revival by jazz-fusion's explicit jazz-improvisation-and-harmonic emphasis.", "recipe": "classic North American mid-1980s klezmer-jazz fusion, improv On Frame, klezmer improv branch, Jewish ritual devotional hasidic niggun sephardi bakkashot. thick, breath veiled tone, straight onset, interlocked note trading. ebonite hard rubber klezmer tradition continuous-airflow legato clarinet, alto nickel silver bright projecting selmer mark vi canonical 1954 1974 jazz paris continuous-airflow saxophone, cold pressed wurzen felt oversize maple tension resonator European spruce grand piano, growly gut upright bass, fiberskyn synthetic calf brushes-and-sticks drum kit, klezmer ensemble. nuyorican fania canon 1968-1977 mid tier fania la tierra studios ny. large-diaphragm condenser, Neve 1073 inductor pre, SSL inline console, dbx 160 VCA, SSL surgical EQ. Studer 30ips tape plate reverb digital delay.", "recipe_chars": 809, "score": 409.651, "config": { "traditions": [ "klezmer_jazz_fusion", "hasidic_niggun", "sephardi_bakkashot" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "delayed_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "jazz_scat_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera", "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid", "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_arab_24_quartertone", "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_vocoder_8_band", "voice_multitrack_stack": 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