Klarinet Archive - Posting 000944.txt from 1998/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman/Jazz Clarinet
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:28:52 -0400

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Kenneth Wolman wrote:

> >"Goodman...died of a heart attack in June of 1986....To all intents and
> >purposes, the jazz clarinet died with him."
>
> I gather Pete Fountain is very much around. And someone mentioned Eric
> Dolphy, who I've heard on the bass clarinet, and who is amazing.

True, but Dolpy preceded Goodman in death by quite a number of years. I
think he died in 1964.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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