Klarinet Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2006/07

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Alto clarinet...?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:07:40 -0400


I have used them in jazz.

You should hear Lenny Pickett playing jazz on one.

My student Mauro Di Gioia in Reno plays a really mean jazz alto clarinet. (Also fine jazz CONTRA BASS in EEb)

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: fgarcia@-----.net
>Sent: Jul 9, 2006 11:59 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Alto clarinet...?
>
>Hello everyone. I am fascinated with the a. clarinet mthpc. thread. I
>had no idea there were so many of you interested in what I had long
>considered a dinosaur. But please read on, I do not mean to insult. You
>have excited interest in me. I have access to a couple Leblanc wood
>altos, probably from the 60s. What do you all think of this instrument?
>I *may* fix it up and give it a toot. Do altos sound good playing jazz?
>Thanks for the insight in advance.
>Frank Garcia
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