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Author: sowilson
Date: 2012-12-15 23:42
My daughter has been playing clarinet for 5 years, bass clarinet for 2, and just started on tenor sax. She's in 9th grade and plays in the jazz ensemple, concert band, and pep band. I'm looking to pick up 5-6 recordings that would show her the breadth of the instruments she plays. Genre can be anything (classical, jazz, etc) but I would like to give her recordings that may inspire her to become a better player. Suggestions?
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2012-12-16 01:05
Benny Goodman: The Complete Victor Small Group Recordings
Artie Shaw: The Complete Gramercy 5 Sessions
"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans": The Best of Pete Fountain
Eddie Daniels: Breakthrough (out of print: get one while you can)
Sabine Meyer: Clarinet Works of Carl Maria von Weber
Those five would keep me happy a long time, even now.
Enjoy!
Eric
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Author: Pastor Rob
Date: 2012-12-16 01:48
Wind in the Reeds by the University of Florida Ensemble
Souvenirs by Sharon Kam
Anything by Martin Frost and Emma Johnson
Pastor Rob Oetman
Leblanc LL (today)
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Author: pewd
Date: 2012-12-18 18:07
In addition to Winds in the Reeds, also by the Univ. of Florida: "Clarinet Thunder".
You can get them from amazon.com
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: Merlin_Williams
Date: 2012-12-19 13:38
Since she's playing tenor in her jazz ensemble as well, you should look at some of the "greatest hits" compilations by some of the following saxophonists:
Stan Getz
John Coltrane
Dexter Gordon
Coleman Hawkins
Ben Webster
Zoot Sims
Joe Henderson
All tenor players, BTW.
Jupiter Canada Artist/Clinician
Stratford Shakespeare Festival musician
Woodwind Doubling Channel Creator on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/WoodwindDoubling
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-12-19 14:22
Antony Pay's recording of the Mozart concerto with Christopher Hogwood conducting the Academy of Ancient Music is superb, and would introduce her to the basset clarinet.
For sheer virtuosic lunacy: Robert Spring's album, "Dragon's Tongue," a selection of short pieces that show off the clarinet's versatility.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2012-12-19 14:46
My intro kit to the teno would include:
Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Power to the People - Joe Henderson
Tales from the Hudson - Michael Brecker
Elastic - Joshua Redman
Eric
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http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: sowilson
Date: 2012-12-19 15:05
Thanks for all of the suggestions, do keep them coming. I have a fairly decent collection of jazz and classical music but I wanted to start my son and daughter off with collections of their own related to their instruments. My daughter plays clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor saxophone. She's also goofing around with the flute and plays penny whistle (trad Irish) and she would eventually like to add baritone saxophone. Since she' 14 I tried to pick CD's that were fairly accessable which leaves some John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy recordings (Out to Lunch) off the list (for now). So here's what I've ordered, hopefully it will have a bit of depth and breadth.
Far Cry, Eric Dolphy
Essential Benny Goodman, Benny Goodman
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Crescent (Dig), John Coltrane
The Best of Pete Fountain, Pete Fountain
Body & Soul, Coleman Hawkins
Very Best of Sabine Meyer, Sabine Meyer
BTW, my son (15, same grade) plays trombone and I'm picking him up the following:
Melody, Ben Van Dijk
Four of a Kind, Music for Trombone Quartet, Franz Joseph Haydn, et al
Blue Train, John Coltrane
Yokohama Concert, J.J. Johnson, Nat Adderley
Mad to the Bone, Bill Watrous Rob Stoneback Big Band
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2012-12-19 15:05
We should all start intoning (in a low, quiet voice) "a love supreme, a love supreme,..........."
Good choices, Eric! I was just listening to Brecker's "Tales from the Hudson" yesterday in my car, coincidentally. Mike Brecker's death was a huge loss to the musical world. Another tenor player who is incredible (and fortunately still alive and playing great) is Pete Christlieb, but he only has a few albums (probably out of print) under his own name --- you would recognize his solos from Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues" and the Natalie Cole version (the duet with her dead dad) of "Unforgettable".
And how could you forget Dexter Gordon??
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2012-12-19 15:17
sowilson,
Good solid choices...just for my peace of mind, though, please TELL me you'll let her hear Artie Shaw's 'Concerto for Clarinet':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOi5vtxCbA
The youtube link shows an excerpt from "Second Chorus"--the studio version (available on many Shaw compilations) is longer, with a different improvised solo over the tom-toms.
Dave,
"Song for Bilbao". "African Skies." Or as I like to call them: Game. Set. Match.
As for Dex, yeah...I should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for not mentioning THIS (a performance that has gotten me through more tough days than I can count...or would want to):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sr7BXinJMw
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
Post Edited (2012-12-19 15:18)
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Author: sowilson
Date: 2012-12-19 19:12
Eric, of course she can listen to Artie Shaw. As for my own collection I have Love Supreme and Giant Steps , a bunch of Mingus, Basie, Ellington, Dexter Gordon, Toshiko Akiyoshi / Lew Tabackin, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Maynard, Buddy Rich BB, Stan Kenton, and some out there stuff from Eberhard Weber, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton and the like. I thought the Art Ensemble of Chicago stuff would be a bit too far out for my kids
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2012-12-19 19:43
A few more fun and inspirational jazz artists for the young reed doubler:
Yusef Lateef (tenor, flute, oboe, bassoon!)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (flute, clarinet and various 'stock' and modified saxes, sometimes at the same time)
Bob Mintzer (bass clarinet and tenor sax, sometimes on other leaders' albums, e.g. Don Grolnick)
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2012-12-19 20:03
"of course she can listen to Artie Shaw."
whew! The Concerto is a classic for demonstrating some pretty important jazz techniques (glissandi, etc). Another, maybe even better, 'pre-version' can be found on the 1938 Paul Whiteman Carnegie Hall concert--it's called 'The Blues' or sometimes titled 'St Louis Blues', and was a prototype for the 'Concerto.' Artie sketched the arrangement, came in for the performance, and left before he could take a curtain call--off to another gig across town. Fortunately it's been preserved on an aircheck.
Nice collection, by the way--don't be afraid to let the kids hear the avant garde stuff. One of my kids, at age seven, couldn't get enough of Song X (Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman).
For trombone: The Great Kai & JJ (Kai Winding and JJ Johnson). A classic. And anything with Bootie Wood in the Count Basie Band.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: FDF
Date: 2012-12-19 23:13
Haven't seen too much R&B or Rock for tenor. How about Jimmy Forest on "Night Train" and Illinois Jacquet playing "Harlem Nocturne?"
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2012-12-19 23:54
Maybe a little bit of Jr. Walker and the All-Stars? Tower of Power (the early group with Lennie Pickett on tenor)? Pickett was one of my biggest influences.
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