Klarinet Archive - Posting 000650.txt from 1996/12

From: John Verity <jverity@-----.com>
Subj: Don Byron's BUG MUSIC
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:12:34 -0500

I'd like to recommend Don Byron's new record, called Bug Music (after
a Flintstones episode that laughed at the Beatles fad), which
features early music by Ellington and two lesser-known "30s-'40s
bands, those of John Kirby and Raymond Scott--and one piece by Billy
Strayhorn, called SNIBOR. Scott wrote many novelty pieces that got
used in cartoons, but Byron points out that he and Kirby were actually
quite sophisticated composers who built on Ellington's early
ideas--and whom contemporary critics misunderstood.
Particularly hot is this
band's performance of Ellington's The Dicty Glide, from 1929. (Anyone
know where that title came from, or where E.'s original can be heard?)

As usual, Byron plays his (Buffet) clarinet magnificently. I
really wish I'd made the effort to see him and his band do this music
recently at the Bklyn Academy of Music.

John Verity/NYC