Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 2011/06

From: corvo di bassetto <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:32:18 -0400

He used to play a Hammerschmidt. This one looks like a Selmer simple (not t=
he "improved" albert); I have a very similar instrument (cf. www.youtube.co=
m/watch?v=3DaxRtBbs0988, actually, I even have the same ligature here). Hug=
e tone holes, very awkward to finger, but simply the best tone (through all=
registers) I ever found on any clarinet.
Amazing that Christopher gets such good results with such bad technique. I =
like his very sharp imagination and precise articulation. Very clear cut, v=
ery convincing; even rather hazardous ideas perfectly executed. Unfortunate=
ly, as soon as he plays more than mf the sound starts to turn sour. That ne=
ver happened to Noone or Bigard, sometimes (but not as drastically) to Sime=
on, often to Dodds (who all played Selmer albert). He is probably biting (m=
ost Creole players of the Tio school=96like Bigard=96used double embouchure=
). Or the mouth piece is too short faced.

best wishes
danyel

Am 21.06.2011 um 21:04 schrieb Bill Hausmann:

> Wow! And on a Albert system clarinet, too!
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> Bill Hausmann
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> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry Paikin =

>> Subject: [kl] Fwd: Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole -
>> Fantasie/Riverboat Shuffle
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>> Today we are featuring the amazingly talented New Orleans clarinetist,
>> Evan Christopher with his band "Django a la Creole". Evan tackles
>> the traditional New Orleans fare with great feeling and skill,
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>> Check him out!
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>> Video:
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>> http://www.jazzonthetube.com/page/891.html
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>> - Lester Perkins
>> Jazz on the Tube
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>> P.S. Please share Jazz on the Tube with your
>> friends and colleagues.
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>> If they like jazz, they're going to love this.
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