Klarinet Archive - Posting 000329.txt from 1999/06

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Cigarette - Clarinetist ad
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:24:32 -0400

reedman@-----.com wrote:

> Which edition, and page is that on? The thing that was the most unusual of
> the ad was that it was in Sports Illustrated. I remember taking an audition
> with the US. Navy Band back in the 80's (Washington) that a guy in the
> waiting room was smoking, I asked him to please put it out, he didn't like
> it, but did. Half hour later, he was one of the panelists (DOH). Got real
> high marks from all but him. Still won the audition - and learned a
> valuable lesson from it.

There's a series of CDs on a label called Pablo of Art Tatum doing both
solo and group work. On one of the CDs, called "Group Masterpieces,"
Buddy DeFranco is the clarinetist. Aside from this man sounding like he
was born in a clarinet case, the cover photo is of him sitting in a
chair, holding a clarinet and what looks suspiciously like a cigarette.
If that's what it is, most likely he wasn't endorsing a brand: he
probably just smoked. So did a lot of windplayers back then, I gather.
In fact, I think someone on this list said that Leon Russianoff had to
stop playing because his emphysema became unmanageable.

Ken
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