Klarinet Archive - Posting 000307.txt from 2003/03

From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Piano and Clarinet Technique
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:17:18 -0500

I don't even know this tune!

Christy Erickson

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From: george galway [mailto:g.galway@-----.com]=20
Subject: Re: [kl] Piano and Clarinet Technique

What about an Irishman?

The tune is: Take the 'A' train

George Galway Manchester UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Wakefield" <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] Piano and Clarinet Technique

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christy Erickson"
> > Does anyone else here play piano and clarinet?
>
> Quite a few I would expect. Certainy moi, and Ian Black also, The =
Scottish
> one!
> My quirk is that whereas I play jazz on piano, and just a modicum of
> accompanying my clarinet students for their exams, I only play =
"straight"
> clarinet. This of course includes theatre work, but it is esentially
> "reading". I attribute this "crazyness" to the piano being my first
> instrument, where I quickly became interested in jazz, and so on the
> keyboard, the chords under my fingers come thick`n`fast. I didn`t =
start
> clarinet until my late teens, so I can`t get my fingers round a C - =
D9b5 -
> Dm7 - G9 - C fluently enough on clarinet to carry a jazz chorus, =
BECAUSE
all
> I see in my mind`s eye are the black`n`white keys of the joanna, not =
the
> clarinet finger movements required to "busk".
> Incidentally, what is this tune called for which I`ve quoted the =
chords
> above for? If an ENGLISHMAN comes forward before an American, then =
I`ll
> withdraw my sponsorship to send Tony Pay back to college!! :<) If Mr =
Pay
> comes forward, I`ll do an arrangement for him.
> Tony W.
>
>
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