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Author: elclari
Date: 2013-04-02 11:55
Hello
What is best mouthpiece for jazz
Vandoren 5jb or Beechler #10 for clarinet
Regards friends
Music & Love
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2013-04-02 13:05
Question: "What is best mouthpiece for jazz"
Answer: the mouthpiece that best allows you to play jazz.
There are no rules. I currently use a Selmer C85, but have used various Vandorens, Zinners, and other custom models over the years.
Find what works for you.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: Joe Bloke
Date: 2013-04-02 15:07
I contacted (email) two of my favorite jazz players with a similar question and got these responses:
1 - Mitchell Lurie "3" mouthpiece (out of production) with an "ordinary" Rico #2 reed.
2 - Vandoren B45 with a Vandoren V12 3.5 or Vandoren "blue box" 3.5 reed.
Both play R-13's with the stock barrel.
Pretty unremarkable setups and evidence that the second post in this thread is the best advice.
I tried the 5JB and, for me, too much air is wasted (unless I really bite down). No surprise that the little icon on the side of the mouthpiece is a saxophone.
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2013-04-02 17:16
Question: "What is jazz?"
Random Answers:
"We stopped using the word [jazz] in 1943, and we much prefer to call it the American Idiom, or the Music of Freedom of Expression."
---Duke Ellington
"Jazz washes away the dust of every day life."
-- Art Blakey
"Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around."
--Miles Davis
"Jazz is what I play for a living."
--Louis Armstrong
"Man, if you have to ask what [jazz] is, you’ll never know."
--Louis Armstrong
"What we play is life."
--Louis Armstrong
"Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments."
--Charles Mingus
"I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I’ve completely rejected. I just don’t see it as an idiomatic thing any more…To me, if jazz is anything, it’s a process, and maybe a verb, but it’s not a thing. It’s a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you."
--Pat Metheny
"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America, no jazz."
--Art Blakey
"Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that."
--Dizzy Gillespie
"It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling."
--Bill Evans
"Jazz could mean any damn' thing..."
--Sidney Bechet
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: dasser
Date: 2013-04-02 17:27
I've not tried the Beechler #10, but a quick note on the 5jb.
If you're a less experienced player, the 5jb may not be the best as some can find it difficult to get an adequate sound. The B45 would be a better choice as it's a good starter mp and a professional mp (have a listen to the English player, Alan Barnes).
If you're a more experienced player, the 5jb is a beauty when played with softer reeds (e.g. rico reserve 2/2.5) and a more relaxed embouchure. I find its incredible responsiveness allows me to easily move around when playing fast bebop. Benny Goodman played one for a time, as well as Kenny Davern.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2013-04-03 00:19
You can play jazz on any mouthpiece.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: ronnie
Date: 2013-04-03 06:41
Whatever suits you is the best reply. Like a number of UK born clarinettists I use a ROC 5*. Interestingly my late friend Kenny Davern had an influence in the design parameters of the Vandoren 5JB.
Ronnie
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Author: ned
Date: 2013-04-04 05:57
Do a search of this BB for hundreds of other responses to this much asked question.
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Author: chris moffatt
Date: 2013-04-04 22:19
Of course the best jazz clarinet mouthpiece won't help much if you don't have a jazz clarinet!
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Author: Wes
Date: 2013-04-04 22:36
Try to use the same mouthpiece you would use for Mozart and Brahms.
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Author: brycon
Date: 2013-04-05 00:13
Quote:
Of course the best jazz clarinet mouthpiece won't help much if you don't have a jazz clarinet!
You mean a soprano saxophone? (I kid, I kid...)
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2013-04-07 03:06
68% of musicians would use a different mouthpiece for Mozart vs Jazz. If you are one of the 32% then use the same mouthpiece. My percentages are drawn from life experience/ imagination and a hat.
Freelance woodwind performer
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2013-04-07 03:11
Update... Most recent percentages 85% of clarinetists would use the same mouthpiece for Mozart vs Jazz. It's hard enough to find one mouthpiece that you really like let alone two.
Freelance woodwind performer
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