Klarinet Archive - Posting 000971.txt from 1998/07

From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman/Jazz Clarinet
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:01:57 -0400

Mark Charette said:

>If any of you have seen the TV program where Wynton Marsalis & Yo-Yo Ma play
>together and Yo-Yo Ma tries to play a bit of jazz with Wynton, it compares
>with Ricardo playing jazz. All the notes are there - but the timing &
>expression required in the jazz genre need a little more work.

Oh, yeah. It reminded me of what Mark Twain said, when his wife tried to
break him of swearing by cursing back at him. "You've got most of the words
right, Livvie, but you don't know the tune."

Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>

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