Klarinet Archive - Posting 000340.txt from 1996/05

From: John Verity <jverity@-----.COM>
Subj: beginner's musical holiday/jazz bass clarinet
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 14:38:58 -0400

I wonder if anyone can suggest any good summer "music camp" programs
for this adult beginner. I'm serious about learning the instrument,
am practicing and taking lessons (as day job permits), and also want
and need a good, distracting holiday. I am leaning to the jazz side of
the music, but perhaps, as only an advanced beginner (or so I like to
think) I have more than enough basics to get down before I specialize.
I live in NYC, but . . . Have Reed, Will Travel.

Thanks in advance,
John Verity jverity@-----.com

ps -- To the person who was inquiring earlier about jazzy bass
clarinet players: You might want to know about Joe Temperley, a
Scotsman who took over Harry Carney's chair in the Ellington
orchestra. He has a few records of his own out, and gigs around
NYC--including with the Lincoln Ctr. jazz orch. Also, a recent record
by Marcus Miller, who helped pull together some of Miles Davis' last
records, has him playing some bass clarinet.
(I would have responded about this earlier, but I have only just now
figured out how to get e-mail through to a bitnet address--something
funny at my end, I believe.)