Klarinet Archive - Posting 000559.txt from 1997/10

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Sax/ Clarinet
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:02:04 -0400

David C. Blumberg wrote:
>
> In my experience, a talented Clarinetist can overtake most Sax players with
> good teaching (for the Clarinet player) in a minimal amount of time.
> However, for a talented Sax player, it would take the Clarinetist much
> longer - if ever, to play catch-up. I find that Clarinetists have much more
> embouchure control then Sax players. Their fingers also usually have more
> coordination from playing the harder instrument. The other facet that a
> Clarinetist would have a hard time "catching up" on is the improvisation
> aspect of Jazz Band.

My respect for classical sax playing went way up when I heard (I think)
Branford Marsalis on soprano sax doing Debussy and other classical
pieces (I didn't catch the title of the CDm and I _think_ the announcer
said Branford Marsalis). They were beautifully & tastefully done.

The jazz idiom commands a different style of playing, usually not as
delicate.
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