Klarinet Archive - Posting 000611.txt from 1998/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: The Infinite vs. Buffet R-13 & E-12
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:14:12 -0400

>>Also, on a side note... just a couple days ago, I was at Radio City Music
>>Hall and saw "the" clarinet... Benny's clarinet. It was just a very weird
>>feeling looking at that clarinet, knowing that "the" great jazz clarinetist
>>of all time (of course, IMO. you might not think so) played it.
>>
>Which brand was he playing at that time? And what time exactly was it? I
>know he switched occasionally.

We KNEW there hadda be a brand-name question here:-). I think someone said
here that Ricardo Morales could take a $250 plastic Vito and and
out-of-the-box student mouthpiece and sound like an angel. I suspect you
could say the same thing about Goodman, Shaw, Daniels, Davern, or DeFranco.

Selmer markets a series of "personality posters" of famous people who play
or played their horns. One of the series is Goodman; so I can only believe
that if he owned different brands, Selmer was one of them. What I'D like
to know is which one he was playing for those mindblowing solos on "Sing,
Sing, Sing" at the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. That is still the most
spectacular display of jazz pyrotechnics I've ever heard.

I know...Vito plastic, plastic mouthpiece, untrimmed Rico #2-1/2 :-).

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649