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Author: eugene
Date: 2000-06-07 00:56
What is available and where I'm in Calgary Alberta,Canada.Is there anyother jazz transcript books for clarinet out there.
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Author: paul
Date: 2000-06-07 01:11
Lots of historically popular music can be purchased via Internet e-tailers nowadays. Let's see if any other posters on this BBS give us references to stores that sell what you are looking for.
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Author: Bob Gardner
Date: 2000-06-07 01:28
check out sheetmusic.com I have purchased some of Benny's music from them. the only problem is that I can't play them yet. The notes are too high for me.
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Author: Ken
Date: 2000-06-07 06:26
If you're interested in an excellent reference CD, pick-up the "Benny Goodman Collector's Edition", CBS Masterworks ISBN 7464-42227-2. It has recordings of the Berstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, Copland Concerto, Stravinsky Ebony Concerto, Gould Derivations, and Bartok Contrasts. Contrary to popular belief among the stuck-up blue-bloods, the man was versatile and could PLAY.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-06-07 10:35
Ken wrote:
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Contrary to popular belief among the stuck-up blue-bloods, the man was versatile and could PLAY.
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Just because someone doesn't like the way Benny plays some of the classicals they have to be a "stuck-up blue-blood"??
Sheesh.
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Author: Fred
Date: 2000-06-08 02:18
OK, think of it like an SAT score. 800 possible points for classical rendition; 800 for jazz. But the test covers both. On that basis, I think Benny would come out pretty good.
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Author: Allen Cole
Date: 2000-06-08 03:36
Several points (as usual):
ON BENNY AS A CROSSOVER ARTIST
I don't think that Benny brought any new great insights to the classical pieces, but I don't see where he was incompetent. We should at least be grateful for the works that he helped bring into the repertoire. You can take any facet of music and find someone who did something better than Benny, but he still did more in totality for the clarinet IMHO than any other player in history.
ON BENNY BOOKS:
There is a Benny Goodman clarinet method book, which is of limited value but has a few solos which were actually arranged as opposed to transcribed.
There's a terrific book of transcriptions in the Music For Millions series by Consolidated Music Publishers. You might be able to locate them via JW Pepper online.
ON THE UTILITY OF SOLO BOOKS:
The book that I described has good transcriptions, but much of the discography may be out of print. This limits your ability to really learn from the transcriptions.
My advice is to get a 'greatest hits' or any other Benny album and learn one of the simpler solos yourself. Learn the licks on your own clarinet and then write the notes down yourself. You'll learn far more doing that on one solo than you will trying to play an entire book of transcriptions that you've never heard.
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