Klarinet Archive - Posting 000358.txt from 1996/05

From: "Victor M. Wyman" <wymanvic@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: beginner's musical holiday/jazz bass clarinet
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 01:05:18 -0400

GREAT IDEA! Me too, me too. Only the location should be with reasonable
access from San Francisco Bay Area.
-victor
At 01:38 PM 5/15/96 EST, you wrote:
>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.)
>
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