Klarinet Archive - Posting 000610.txt from 2000/05

From: "Bryan Cholfin" <cranked@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Shaw Method
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 23:43:13 -0400

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>From: "Jim Lytthans" <lytthans@-----.net>
> 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!).

There's an amusing description in Shaw's autobiography about the first time
he picked up a clarinet. He told the band-leader he was working for that he
could double (having only played sax up to then) and was given a clarinet
part to play. It was of course immediately apparent during the next gig that
he was lying. But the band leader (the name escapes me) kept him on clarinet
anyway. He wasn't a prodigy like Goodman (and he certainly didn't have
Goodman's commercial instincts), but he worked at it--his earliest clarinet
recordings on not great, but his last (the 1954 Gramercy Five sessions) are.

--Bryan

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