Klarinet Archive - Posting 000910.txt from 1998/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman/Jazz Clarinet
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:09:41 -0400

At 07:07 PM 7/23/98 -0400, gdubac wrote:
>I just received my August 13, 1998 copy of the New York Review of Books
>in the mail. It contains an extremely informative article on Benny
>Goodman by Whitney Balliett, former jazz critic for the New Yorker. I
>wonder how many of you would agree with Mr. Bailliett's conclusion.
>
>"Goodman...died of a heart attack in June of 1986....To all intents and
>purposes, the jazz clarinet died with him."
>
Buddy DeFranco is still active. Henry Cuesta. Does Eddie Daniels count?
The ranks HAVE gotten pretty thin lately. Mr. Bailliett's conclusion is
not without justification. And it's a damned shame, too!

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