Klarinet Archive - Posting 000852.txt from 1998/04

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Other winds and clarinet
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:42:33 -0400

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, L. BORCHERT wrote:
> I originally went to Chicago one summer to study with this clarinet player
> who I had seen featured in the Chicago Magazine. There was a picture of
> him playing saxophone in a jazz group called Ears with a french horn
> player (Dale Clevenger from the CSO) playing at a club named Orphans.
> This person, as I was later to find out, had recently been appointed
> Associate Principal (I believe that was his first title) and Eb with the
> CSO. We now know him as the Principal Clarinetist of the orchestra, Larry
> Combs. The reason I went to study with him was not just because his
> reputation as a clarinetist (he had just gotten the job moving from
> Montreal) but because he did both clarinet and saxophone and was
> successful at both.
> I did go hear him play at the club a couple of times and he did
> very well, much better than Clevenger, but then, again, I may be
> prejudiced in favor of the woodwind player. Did any of you hear his jazz
> clarinet skills at the clarinet convention in Chicago a few years back?

When I heard Combs play Rhapsody in Blue with the CSO on a CD, I asked
Lawrie Bloom if Combs played the solo (I didn't know if he was the
clarinetist or not)......Lawrie said absolutely....said that Larry was a
terrific saxophone player and jazz artist! What a cool thing to learn!

Roger Garrett
IWU

   
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