Klarinet Archive - Posting 000506.txt from 2000/12

From: Knaphet@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Peplowski continued.
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:04:49 -0500

I should have said "soprano clarinet." Certainly I have not forgotten Eric
Dolphy. He was unparallelled on bass.

Phil Woods, Paquito d'Rivera, and others you mention...many play clarinet as
a side instrument. And they sound great on clarinet. But it is still a
sideline in jazz, in a way.

You write: "Dont'you think that if the student want to study Jazz Langage
history,

as matter of fact he can forget all those clarinetists, if he wants?"

This is exactly my point. When I talk about "Carrying the torch", this is
what I mean. If it is your goal to contribute to the jazz world through
clarinet playing, and don't care about money, that is the way to go. Study
Miles, Dolphy, Coltrane, etc.

If you want a career that involves more money, then learn the big band
clarinet stuff, as your bread and butter. Be good at it, fluent at it. And
play avante-garde when you can. This is what Peplowski has done, at least it
seems that way. And, to me, the way he plays does not seem "sellout" to me
in the way that some commercial jazz artists seem (I choose not to name
anyone, I am sure you can think of some).

These posts are fun for me to read and respond, but I think it comes down to
this: we all have our favorite jazz clarinetists and yours is Eric Dolphy
and mine is Ken Peplowski, and another gentleman on the list prefers Buddy
DeFranco and another, Benny Goodman.

And I need to check out Louis Sclavis. Thanks for the tip.

--Anthony T

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