Klarinet Archive - Posting 000103.txt from 1999/01

From: Lisa Canjura-Clayton <lisakc@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] 2nd try (jimmy guiffre etc.)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:05:12 -0500

At 03:48 AM 01.04.99 -0800, you wrote:
>im not sure if asking a question twice on this list is taboo.....if it is,
>my apologies.
>
>if anyone on the list has heard jimmy guiffre's recording free fall id love
>to hear some opinions on it. as well as the recordings of players like ben
>goldberg, john carter, anthony braxton, david krakauer, joe maneri,
>chris speed and others that would vaguely fall into the same category.

I love this stuff. But, being an amateur clarinetist more than anything
(and having showed my ignorance far, far too much ;-) I couldn't really
comment much on things like jazz phrasing vs. classical phrasing, etc. Me,
I'm still learning how to gliss. Heck, if I get the changes right in "Tin
Roof Blues" I'm a happy camper for weeks.

Ben Goldberg's work is the one I'm most familiar with from the above list.
His stuff is dissonant and wonderfully wild. He's like Eric Dolphy in the
sense that he can get sounds out of his clarinet that I've never heard
before. Goldberg played klezmer before embarking on his current projects,
and you can hear the influence in the way he approaches sound.

Also, I'd like to add another personal favorite to your list, someone
definitely worth checking out-- Beth Custer. "The Shirt I Slept In" is a
great album, and her 3 albums with Trance Mission are fantastic. Trance
Mission had four instruments: Didgeridoo, bass clarinet (and sometimes
alto, see below), oboe and percussion, usually tablas. Bass clarinets and
didgeridoos are a fabulous match, they support each other's sound very
well. She's also one of the few clarinetists I've heard that works with an
*alto* clarinet as well as the regular Bb soprano and bass clarinets.
She's worked with Ben Goldman in Clarinet Monster and a couple of other
projects.

I'm always looking for the names and albums of young, avant garde
clarinetists who are delving into the world music arena.

Good luck on your quest!

Lisa Clayton
lisakc@-----.com

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