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Fresh from the Conservatory— and Free to Play Snipes wrote the lyrics, all four band members wrote the music and arranged the songs. The album opens with a throbbing guitar figure over Ellis’ one-two bass drum punch and Snipes’ distorted vocal, which introduces the muse who drew him to the city only to dash his dreams. “(Left me) Sweat sleeping in a dream honey / (Hold me) Cause I’m tossing in this air mattress / (Told me) You were too afraid to fall in love.” Following that tense opening verse, the song swells into a full-throated rocker with the band adding a high harmony behind Snipes, as Griffis’ guitar powers the tune into full flight. Like the rest of the songs on the album it takes unexpected turns, as when everyone else drops out and Williams plays Rigoletto a deeply funky chorus alone. Gifted musicians with a keen grasp of dynamics and melody, t’s taken us two years to figure out how to write Rigoletto are one more reason a song without killing each other,” said Corey why people everywhere have Snipes, singer and guitarist with the Chattabegun to pay much closer atnooga-based band, Rigoletto. The remark drew hoots of tention to the music coming knowing laughter from his bandmates, bassist Chris Wilout of Chattanooga. Another group of conserliams and guitarist Dave Griffis. vatory-trained musicians Covenant, as is drummer Kirk will play at Barking Legs on Covenant College Ellis. Snipes, the band’s singer Dodds Avenue at 8:30 p.m. on classmates comprise and lyricist, is an Monday, April 15. art major. It was Called Ezekiel’s Rigoletto; Ezekiel’s while he was in Wheels, they’re a Wheels reignites New York studying five-piece Klezmer design last summer band from Boston. Klezmer music that he began writKlezmer origiTheir debut album, Deluing the songs on RICHARD WINHAM nated as the music sions of Grandeur, was retheir first album. played by eastern leased to retail last Tuesday, Like many before him, European jews at weddings and they’re celebrating with a Snipes found the city’s size and and other celebrations in the show at Rhythm &Brews on ceaseless momentum disori19th century. They brought the Thursday, April 11. They’ve enting, intimidating and irremusic here in the early part of been playing together since sistibly exciting. These conflictthe last century and began fusmeeting at Covenant College a ing emotions—and the girl he ing it with jazz. The music fadcouple of years ago. Griffis and sought there—are captured in ed in the 1930s and ’40s before Williams are music majors at the album’s 10 songs. But while being revived in the ’70s.
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Ezekiel’s Wheels—featuring clarinetist Nat Seeten, fiddlers Jon Tannen and Abigail Reissman, trombonist Pete Fanellim and bassist Kirsten Lamb—is a second-generation revivalist band. “Our approach to Klezmer has always been to bring in lots of different genres,” Lamb said in a recent phone conversation. “We like taking the most popular tunes of the day and doing our own thing with them … fusing it with different styles, trying to keep it fresh.” All except Fanelli are classically trained musicians who yearned to break free from the constraints of the orchestra. They all wanted to play in a smaller ensemble that would allow them to improvise rather than simply following a score. The result—freewheeling jazzbased improvisations in which everyone has an equal voice— sounds like Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven with an eastern European accent. “The thing I really appreciate about this band,” Lamb said, “is the way we bounce the melodies from person to person and the way we all trade being a lead player at times with a more supportive role at others. It’s refreshingly democratic.” Freed from the prison of the page, these five talented players sound like children at recess, dashing, shouting and laughing at play. The bright, breezy, traditional tunes are given fresh life in their hands. This isn’t musty folkloring, but music making at its most liberated and enthusiastic. The band won both Best Klezmer Band and Audience Choice Award at the October 2012 International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam. By all accounts, the judges were won over by their improvisational skills and democratic spirit. It’s very likely that anyone in the audience at Barking Legs will be, too. • Richard Winham is the producer and host of WUTC-FM’s afternoon music program and has observed the Chattanooga music scene for more than 25 years.