Klarinet Archive - Posting 000146.txt from 2005/08

From: "Craig Rasband" <jasband@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Robert Schoen/applause
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:41:31 -0400

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From: "Karl Krelove"

> Of course, exactly the opposite happens at a jazz performance.
> Applause follows every solo - to the point that the beginning of the
> next solo is often obliterated unless the rhythm section vamps for a
> few bars to wait for the audience to settle down.

Which is, I'm sure, the reason a well known jazz sax and trumpet
player from Chicago (whose name escapes this fuzzy old brain at the
moment) instructs his audience not to applaud for solos. I saw him for
the first time many years ago in Florida and, not knowing about his
policy, enthusiastically applauded for solos on the first tune I heard,
wondering why everybody else was sitting there like dead fish.

I can certainly understand why he doesn't want the music
interrupted by clapping sounds, but it has the effect of causing
everybody to refrain from getting emotionally involved in the
performance. What the hell would be wrong with a rousing "Yeah!" or
something, after (during?) a great solo? For me, I would gladly
sacrifice a few unheard notes for some emotional evolvement
(encouragement, hopefully) from the audience.

(Back to lurking.)

Craig Rasband

"Swing is one of jazz's great gifts to humanity.
Don't screw it up." - John Goldsby

http://home.earthlink.net/~jasband/CR.html

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