Klarinet Archive - Posting 000593.txt from 1995/03

From: JazzKim@-----.COM
Subj: Re: Eating after playing
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:31:01 -0500

Dear Larry,
I very much enjoyed document/3 exhibits you sent. I received it via e-mail
from friend and fellow-clarinetist Lee Callett. We are working a pit show
together right now. Thanks to several of us, that story is spreading like
wildfire.
This is greetings from Los Angeles, the land of recent multiple disasters
and one outlandish trial. I'm a clarinetist, student of Harold Wright (when I
lived in Washington D.C.) who has lived in L.A. for over 20 years, working in
every avenue out here. I have found my main voice on the saxophone, being
primarily a jazz player on the artistic level (hopefully) and working as a
doubler quite often. I've also gained some kind of a reputation as a
composer/arranger. I'm not inclined to "blow my own horn" but I'm sending my
publicity resume attached to this message.
KIM RICHMOND is based in Los Angeles and works as a free-lance musician,
doing studio work, shows, and various jazz venues. His reputation is
primarily as a doubling saxophonist (most often lead alto saxophone, doubling
on flutes and clarinet). Although his training has been in the area of
classical clarinet, he is considered a jazz stylist and holds a position of
high musical respect among his peers, both as a player and as a
composer/arranger and leader.

Kim has been a member of the orchestras of Stan Kenton (on the road and one
album), Bob Florence (on eight albums), Clare Fischer (one album), Louis
Bellson, Les Brown, Bill Holman, and many others.

The improvisational Kim Richmond Jazz Ensemble is showcased on the
critically acclaimed Nine Winds Records/USA Music album release "Looking In
Looking Out." Released on Sea Breeze Records in February 1993 is the first
album (titled "Passages) of the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra, a
23-piece showcase for Kim's writing and soloing abilities. His latest album,
call "Range", co-led with trumpeter and tour partner Clay Jenkins, will be
released on Nine Winds during Summer of 1995.

He has composed and conducted original musical scores for several movies and
television series, as well as new works for the concert stage, including
commissions of major new Jazz pieces, all of which have been published, and
classical works including a major piece for the Long Beach Symphony for brass
quintet and orchestra.

Kim is active as a regular radio host of a program on jazz and avant-garde
music, and writes articles and reviews for jazz magazines (Saxophone Journal
and Jazz Player magazines).

In spite of his busy schedule in the professional music world, Kim enjoys
keeping in touch with the educational music field by serving as guest
lecturer, conductor and soloist (his primary Jazz voice is on alto saxophone)
at college music festivals and workshops around the country. He is
clinican/artist-in-residence at the Summer Jazz Camps held at Drury College,
Springfield, MO, Kansas City and Dallas, Texas.

Whatever his mode of expression, be it instrumental performance,
composition, arranging and conducting, Kim Richmond is striving to express a
uniquely original voice, combining his extensive experience with the new
sounds of our evolving musical world.

Just saying hello to you and hope we run into each other some day. I have
great respect for your work.
Regards,
Kim