Klarinet Archive - Posting 000241.txt from 1999/01
From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] 2nd try (jimmy guiffre etc.)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:22:11 -0500
On 1/4/99 6:48 AM, david rothbaum 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 don't know about Jimmy G's "Free Fall". But I do know David Krakauer,
and I've heard several recordings of John Carter.
I've known David K since we were Russianoff students during the 1970's.
He is a very talented player. His Klezmer (?) recording with Kronos is on
my stereo cabinet, still in its shrink wrap. I had no idea he'd gotten
into this. The last I knew he was playing in a contemporary music group
in NYC, and doing some interesting and challenging repertoire. Now he's
famous.
I got to know the playing of John Carter when a student introduced me to
the "Clarinet Summit" LPs more than ten years ago. For those of you
who've never heard them, I urge you to seek them out. The clarinetists
are Jimmy Hamilton, Alvin Batiste, John Carter, and David Murray (mostly
playing bass clarinet). The music is a wide variety of styles, from
Ellington arrangements for quartet, through a 7 minute "Honeysuckle Rose"
(by Hamilton and Batiste - the most swinging 7 minutes I can ever
remember hearing, and no rhythm section), to some avant-garde stuff by
John Carter, which was "interesting" for a while. Although I'm always
interested to hear what composers are attempting in new works, and how
players are approaching the clarinet in "new" ways, I find after a while
that the unremitting tension of some of that sort of music just loses my
attention. I need some release to go with that tension, or it starts to
sound all the same.
BTW, those "Clarinet Summit" LPs are (were?) on India Navigation records,
and there are three of them:
1.) Live at the Clarinet Summit
2.) LaCS Vol II (the out-takes from the first LP, after it was a big
seller)
3.) Vol III - a studio version of the first, after the others sold
well - not as spontaneous, but still good playing in the same vein.
David
David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/
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