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music extensively throughout his life, often playing with his brother Ray
Musiker and father-in-law Dave Tarras. He is recognized as an innovative and influential klezmer musician, incorporating elements of jazz and swing to create a distinctive and characteristic 'New York' klezmer style. As well as
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I was in both as the swing band members were in both. The concert band began the song and when the song switched to the swing band those members stood up from within the concert band. I was lucky to have had professional
Trombone player Wayne Webb teach the course an hour every day for four years and
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Musiker's life, career and family history embody the transition of klezmer music from its
European roots to a new and distinctive American style over the course of the 20th Century. Dave Tarras carried the musical traditions of the old world to New York in the 1920s; through the 1940s and 1950s, Sam
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While serving as a staff sergeant in the World War II era, Musiker led the 669th Army Air Force Band. In the early 1960s, he worked an elementary school teacher at Marion Street School in
Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, where he wrote the Marion Street School song which is still sung on occasion
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swing arrangements. The original release was not well marketed and the album failed to find an audience. However, it has since been recognized as a landmark in Jewish-American music and achieved more popularity. The album has since been re-released by Sony on the Legacy imprint.
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Musiker was born in New York and lived there for much of his life. As a professional musician he moved through New York's complex musical milieu, equally at home playing in bars, restaurants and recording sessions among jazz and
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Musiker brought new influences to klezmer from his professional experience in jazz and swing; and his younger brother Ray
Musiker carried this authentic musical experience forwards to a new generation of musicians in the
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