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Michel Portal

Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-02-06 20:11

I just received two CDs with clarinetist Michel Portal and Richard Galliano, The latest "Blow up" and "Concerts". This some of the most outstanding playing I've hear anyone do on a clarinet. If you haven't heard this guys playing, you will hear it and realize you've been missing something.

I've looked around on the Internet and it seems he's recorded alot of classical music, I'm going to make sure I get some of those CDs also. It is so rare that I hear someone on a clarinet sound like they've gotten to the center of the proverbial tootsie pop, without biting that when it occurs I feel I need to shout it from the highest digital rooftop. The sound he gets on the clarinet is beautiful, squeally and sometimes just plane haunting. The bass clarinet sound is amazing as is his soprano sax playing. And he can play the Bandoneon, you've got to be a madman or rocket scientist to figure out that squeeze box!

Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance

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