Author: Jeff Forman
Date: 2000-12-31 21:16
I am desperate to find a book published in 1994 but already out of print. It is called Pete Fountain's Greatest Solos. Transcriptions of 16 solos. I t used to be distributed by Hal Leonard but they don't have it anymore. I found a great dixie/jazz clarinet album by Andy Sherwood and I wrote to him to ask if his stuff is transcribed. He told me that it isn't and that the way to learn it is to transcribe it myself. He then recommended the Pete Fountain book, but i've looked everywhere and can't find it.
I've been playing the banjo for 30 years (in bluegrass bands) and just took up the clarinet in March. The hardest part was learning to read music because in the 30 years of banjo, I played by ear. The notes aren't so bad, its the timing. If I hear it, I can play it in time. My teacher hates when I cheat like that and I've given in, trying to take unheard music and figure out the timing of the notes. But my goal is still to do screaming dixie and/or klezmer. I would love to get the Pete Fountain chops because I hear patterns in his playing and I know that every musician develops licks that repeat in one's "style". I could do a lot worse than to emulate Pete Fountain, I think.
So anyway, if anyone can lend/sell/rent - whatever - the Pete Fountain book, I will be eternally greatful.
Please drop me an e-mail.
Thanks
Jeff Forman
forman@home.com
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