Klarinet Archive - Posting 000606.txt from 2000/05

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Shaw Method
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:06:08 -0400

Jim writes:

>Shaw was mostly self taught, but in many
>ways I believe he was a better all around jazz player than, say, Benny
>Goodman (I'll probably get flamed for saying this!).

Nah! no flames on that. It is personal interpretation stuff. IMHO, Benny
played *all* the changes in a more arpeggio style than did Shaw. But, Shaw
had a more lyrical (if that is the right word) melodic phrasing technique
that was breathtaking to hear. It is written somewhere that Benny and Artie
once discussed their views on the clarinet and Goodman sensing Shaw's troubled
outlook and professed on-off attitude with the clarinet, pointed out the
clarinet is all, the clarinet is everything. Later when Shaw abruptly dis-
banded and Benny was told Shaw wasn't even practicing anymore, Benny said:
(I paraphrase) Aw, that's too bad, he should at least be playing his scales.

73's
Don L

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