Klarinet Archive - Posting 000446.txt from 2000/06

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Notes and Jazz
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:06:34 -0400

Sam Burrows asks:

>I've got a resonably good ear but find it very
>difficult to learn sight-reading. Does the group think that ability to
>read music is necessary or worthwhile for my style of music?

This brings up the legendary Vido Musso, tenorman with Goodman, Kenton and
others. Vido couldn't read but had a fabulous ear. He memorized the parts
for section playing which must have been a huge chore. He had a big gutsy
sound and a lot of expressiveness on solos. Does anyone recall his "Sorrento"
or "Yesterdays?" (not the Beatle tune) I won't venture an opinion on avoiding
the need to read in jazz. There have been those, like Musso, who had it in
their soul on the one extreme and on the other, well-schooled musicians who
couldn't blow their nose without the part in front of them. In the main,
however, if one has the ear and a feel for improvisation he shouldn't have trouble
learning notation.

Don Longacre

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