Klarinet Archive - Posting 000204.txt from 2011/06

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: Evan Christopher's Django a la
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:13:08 -0400

I prefer to think of it as using a wide variety of tonal colors. I agree
his technique does not look good, though.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: corvo di bassetto
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole -
> Fantasie/Riverboat Shuffle
>
> He used to play a Hammerschmidt. This one looks like a Selmer simple
> (not the "improved" albert); I have a very similar instrument (cf.
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=axRtBbs0988, actually, I even have the same
> ligature here). Huge 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, very convincing; even rather hazardous ideas perfectly
> executed. Unfortunately, as soon as he plays more than mf the sound
> starts to turn sour. That never happened to Noone or Bigard, sometimes
> (but not as drastically) to Simeon, often to Dodds (who all played
> Selmer albert). He is probably biting (most Creole players of the Tio
> school-like Bigard-used 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!
> >
> >
> > Bill Hausmann
> >
> > If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Larry Paikin
> >> Subject: [kl] Fwd: Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole -
> >> Fantasie/Riverboat Shuffle
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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,
> >>
> >> Check him out!
> >>
> >> Video:
> >>
> >> http://www.jazzonthetube.com/page/891.html
> >>
> >> - Lester Perkins
> >> Jazz on the Tube
> >>
> >> P.S. Please share Jazz on the Tube with your
> >> friends and colleagues.
> >>
> >> If they like jazz, they're going to love this.
> >>
> >
> >
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