Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 1995/05

From: John Roman <JohnARoman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: "Jazz" Technique
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 01:52:41 -0400

On May 1 Jim Schlater wrote:
<<as long as we're naming our favorite jazz players, let me throw in
the name of one who influenced me early on... Matty Matlock. I had a
recording of the Paul Weston orchestra playing a suite called Crescent
City (N'awlins, for all you yankees!). Mr. Matlock did the clarinet solos
on it. What a gorgeous warm sound.>>

Jim, I don't know Mr. Matlock but it's amazing how viewpoints on something as
subjective as a "warm" sound can vary over time. I'm continually surprised
at opinions I expressed twenty or thirty years ago when I once again hear the
recordings that gave rise to those opinions. Either the recordings have
changed or my perception of them has.

John Roman