Klarinet Archive - Posting 000750.txt from 1998/01

From: Gary_VanCott@-----.com
Subj: Re: VIBRATO IN WIND PLAYING
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:26:57 -0500

>. . .The more such players shake, the more they are recognized as artists.
And little by little they promote themselves to the tittle of" King of
jazz. . . .And to arouse the ardor of the audience, the players twist
themselves
and their instruments up and down and sideways, and at the climax of
this Saint Vitas dance look like victims of convulsion. . . .<

This excerpt from Avrahm Galper's quote of Bellison reminded me of
something my clarinet teacher (who had been a Hollywood studio musician, in
the 1940s and possibly a few years before and after). He told me that
before Benny Goodman made any movies, Goodman played with his clarinet in a
convention position. However, this was too dull for the movies and the
director asked him to liven things up. Afterward this became at least a
part of Goodman's style of playing.

Gary Van Cott
Las Vegas, NV