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Author: pelo_ensortijado
Date: 2006-10-14 18:51
i just wanna know how famous the swedish jazzclarinetist Putte wickman is out there in the world????
here at home he is the one!! and there's a whole bunch of stories about how famous he is. but i've started to wonder. is he really that big?
allmost nowhere on this site is he mentioned among the greatest....
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-10-14 19:03
First I've heard that name, and I thought I'd heard of most contemporary recording clarinetists. Looking at his discograpy, it appears as if he only had 8 recordings before his death earlier this year.
Martin Fröst and Håkan Rosengren would be the ones that first come to mind for Swedish soloists.
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2006-10-14 21:03
Putte was one of the greatest jazz clarinetists in the world. In America he wasn’t known to the big public even though he toured the US for many years from 1959, but all the big jazz clarinetists knew him very well. In the 70th he had both an international and a domestic career. There is not a church or a concert hall in Sweden where he hasn’t appeared in concert.
I had the pleasure of meeting him a few times and we got to know each other during his last years. At his last appearance in a sold out Stockholm Concert Hall exactly a year ago I was there and we had a chat. He had a severe cancer in his pancreas but was not particularly marked by it so he played better than ever that night. The last time I met him in December last year we played in the same concert. The cancer was at that time gone to 70% “so I can go on playing for another 10 years” he said at age 82. Two month later he died. I remember him for his great natural musicianship, for his humble personality and for his big heart.
Short bio:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg&sql=Putte+Wickman&opt1=1
Some short samples:
http://www.emusic.com/artist/11704/11704593.html
Alphie
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Author: graham
Date: 2006-10-15 18:17
I've got a record of his I bought at a fair and he seemed good. He looked a double of one of my clarinet teachers.
Not surprised he was the sort of age Alphie mentions.
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Author: pelo_ensortijado
Date: 2006-11-06 17:23
hm. thanks alot alphie.
i reckon you are a swede by the "bredbandsbolaget" next to your name.
but also by the text. i have only met other swedes that talks like that about him. noone else.
anyone out there???
what's your opinion? was he the great clarinetist alphie and every other swede says he was?? or is that just something that we made up?
anyone who isn't a swede????
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Author: jmcgann
Date: 2006-11-06 17:37
I have a 2 CD recording of his that my friend in Sweden sent me. Wonderful playing!
If my pal hadn't sent it, I wouldn't have heard of him here in the States...
www.johnmcgann.com
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Author: BobD
Date: 2006-11-06 18:08
I have a vague recollection of having heard of him so he's not as famous as Mr.Acker Bilk. It sounds like he was as good as they say he was. Maybe he was even better.
Bob Draznik
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Author: mankan
Date: 2006-11-07 08:59
You really cant compare Bilk to Putte Wickman. Putte was an outstanding jazzimproviser with a brilliant tone and tecnique. I heard him in the fall of 2004 in my hometown Örebro, and he never sounded better.
80 years old, sick, but excellent in his playing with young jazzsingers Victoria Tolstoy and La Gaylia Frazier.
For me he has been jazzclarinetist number one since his album "Happy new year" back in the 70:ies. If you guys "over there" havent heard him you really should buy a couple af cd:s.
PS "Niclas and Alphie"- glad to hear that there´s other swedes on the forum.
Magnus Börjesson
Örebro, Sweden
(Buffet Crampon S1, Vandoren B40)
mankan
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Author: BobD
Date: 2006-11-07 14:31
It's "Mr. Acker Bilk", I believe. Well, certainly one can compare the two players without necessarily equating them. But ABBA rules. And, eat lots of lutefisk and lingenberries.
Bob Draznik
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Author: pelo_ensortijado
Date: 2006-11-07 17:46
to mankan:
ofcourse we are here. it is the best forum on the web! :D
atleast i think that it is.
/n
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2006-11-07 18:00
Mr. Acker Bilk is Kenny G of the clarinet. I respect him for that, but to compare him to Putte W or Karl Leister for that matter would not be fair to any of them. They all do incomparable things on the clarinet.
Alphie
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