Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 1994/03

From: James Langdell <James.Langdell@-----.COM>
Subj: Jazz/Klezmer clarinettist
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:32:20 -0500

Lisa Clayton was asking about "a new jazz clarinetist
whose name I've been trying to track down."

I have two good guesses at who that is. Most likely is
Don Byron, the clarinettist from the Bahamas who has been
a star player with the Klezmer Conservatory Orchestra.
He's come out with two albums on Elektra/Nonesuch.
One is more Jazz oriented, called "Tuskegee Experiments"
(though it has some Klezmer oriented music and even a
transcription for bass clarinet of a Schumman song).
The other is a tribute album to Mickey Katz, a later
Klezmer player, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, who
happens to be Joel Grey's father.

Another player who inhabits the jazz/klezmer/classical
worlds is Ben Goldberg of the San Francisco area.
I don't know his recordings offhand, but I recall that
he's done some.

--James Langdell jamesc@-----.com
Sun Microsystems Mountain View, Calif.