Mona Rosenblum Changed Jewish Music @mendyhband @Mendyportnoymusic @ThankYouHashem

I've said it many times on interviews. I wish Mono would know what he did to music because I don't think he even grasps >> what he did. And again, you can find plenty of talented arrangers and especially nowadays. >> He's iconic. >> He shaped so much of what we call now Jewish or even I mean for sure, but even Jewish music, he has shaped so much of it in the influence part. >> It's so interesting to hear from different people I speak to who are come from completely different directions talk about him. The last person I spoke to was Danny Flam. >> Yeah. >> And he, you know, he was telling me how when he was in the Israeli army, he met Ma and you know, Ma was, I think he said the first session they played something. They were playing some jazz kind of thing, like warming up and I was like, "No, they played Jewish music." >> In those moments as a kid, I didn't understand fully how great what I was listening to was. Now looking back like all of those intros and the horn lines and it was really like it shaped a lot of like subconsciously of who I am and what I do today without even realizing it. No question.