Klarinet Archive - Posting 000970.txt from 1998/07

From: Lisa Clayton <lisakc@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Whoops, I guess
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:01:56 -0400

At 12:43 PM 07.24.98 -0400, you wrote:
>I mentioned Eric Dolphy without being aware that he'd died quite some time
>ago. An amazingly dumb mistake on my part.

While it's true that Dolphy died long before Benny Goodman, I don't think
it was inappropriate to invoke him as one of the people who has kept jazz
clarinet alive. He was the one who inaugurated the bass clarinet as a solo
jazz instrument (it had been used to a limited extent in big bands). His
influence can be seen in the work of such avant-garde instrumentalists such
as Anthony Braxton. In a way, you can say that his influence outlived him,
and that this influence certainly survived the death of Goodman.

Lisa Clayton
lisakc@-----.com

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