Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-10-26 20:19
Never look a gift gig in the mouth.
When I was younger and completely inexperienced in "traditional" (i.e. pre-bebop) jazz I was hired (to my complete surprise) to play alto and bari saxes and bass clarinet(!) in a well-known local combo doing Benny Goodman small-group tunes, Louis Jordan, that sort of stuff -- I hadn't a clue, never having listened to that sort of music, much less played it! Well, I stayed with the group for a year, learned a lot and had a lot of fun, even though I was definitely the weak link in the band -- and when I quit it was my own decision, I wasn't fired. So give your new gig a shot.
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The Clarinet BBoard
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