Klarinet Archive - Posting 000414.txt from 1995/02

From: Don't Try This at Home <malaga@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: The Jazzless Age
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:20:10 -0500

I don't understand either! I've heard people RECENTLY (like within the
past year) perform current works and earlier works for jazz clarinet, and
sound great on it, with a dance band, big band, duet w/another clarinet,
and even a wind ensemble or orchestra! Eddie Daniels has several
fantastic albums out (especially "to Bird with Love" and "Breakthrough,"
IMHO), the UW jazz band just played the Henry Brant Concerto for Clarinet
and Dance Band with Bill Smith, which was really great, too. Mr. Brant
takes a standard form for a concerto (fast, slow, faster, to put it
bluntly) and then takes each movement and changes each phrase to a
different length, mutating the solo material and backgrounds to fit.
There are MANY great jazz clarinetists out there, and I'm only naming a
couple of the ones I've seen in person recently; there are many more and
I don't mean to exclude anyone.

Adam Smith
malaga@-----.edu

   
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