Klarinet Archive - Posting 000631.txt from 2005/06

From: "Danny Bittker" <dbittker@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] More on Lester Young, and back to the clarinet...
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:40:39 -0400

..and, to bring the Lester Young entries back to the clarinet, he did play
and record on the instrument; apparently he used a metal one,by the way. I
don't think I have any of the recordings, but in the index to Lewis
Porter's excellent "A Lester Young Reader" (Smithsonian Press, 1991) there
are at least a dozen entries on his clarinet playing. I imagine that due to
the construction of the instrument, he was unable to play it at a right
angle to the floor....

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