Klarinet Archive - Posting 000675.txt from 1999/11

From: Dave Sandusky <daves@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Jazz Mouthpieces
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:14:08 -0500

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I go and see (hear) these guys every time I am in San Antonio. The clarinet
player (from looking at their web site, I guess their former clarinet player),
Brian Ogilvie, is really great. He told me his set-up (if I can remember)-Uses a
Selmer clarinet (narrow bore, I think he said), a Vandoren 5JB and a soft (#2?)
reed. I have the info at home on the CD he signed for me, so I'll double check
tonight. These guys are great!

Dave S.

ShawThings@-----.com wrote:

> Franklin,
> I think you misunderstood what I was trying to get at and in doing so proved
> my point (which I probably didn't state clearly enough).
> I've heard Jim Cullum (Jr. - a cornetist) and his band and they're terrific.
> But they're not a "Dixieland" band, more of a Jazz repetory company. Just
> look at their website (at //www.riverwalk.org) - they list programs
> (including tunes and presentation sequences) up to a year in advance. They
> play with fabulous guest artists including some great Australians (e.g. Bob
> Barnard & Nina Ferro) as well as people like Benny Carter, Clark Terry,
> Lionel Hampton and Dick Hyman, none of whom could be identified as
> "Dixieland" players. In the past year they've played programs devoted to
> styles as diverse as blues, stride piano, early Chicago, boogie woogie, and
> individual songwriters like Fats Waller, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and Hoagy
> Carmichael.
> (Nobody will ever convince me that Cole Porter was a "Dixieland" songwriter
> any more than Billie Holliday was a "Dixieland" singer or Django Rheinhart
> was a "Dixieland" guitarist, although the popular perception of "Dixieland"
> might have it otherwise.
> Anyway, this is getting way off topic, so I'd better stop.
> BUT - BTW - did you know that Jim Cullum's dad (Jim Sr.) was a clarinet
> player and that he is supposed to have inspired Johnny Mercer to write the
> song "Jamboree Jones" in the early 1930s?
> Cheers!
> Tim Shaw
>
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