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Re: Jazz clarinet

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-02-13 21:37

The score for Smith's Concerto (including performance comments by him) is available from Parkside Publications.

http://www.parksidepublications.com/concerto.html.

Smith should not be written out of the history of jazz clarinet; he should be written into it, listened to, and his book should be read for the transcriptions of jazz clarinet performances he provides and for what he has to say about improvisation.

In his biography, New Orleans jazz clarinetist and Duke Ellington stalwart Barney Bigard recalls with fondness that all the New Orleans jazz clarinetists looked up to Lorenzo Tio because Tio could read music so well along with improvising it by ear, and he was literate enough to talk sensitively and accurately about it. All these qualities combined to make him a good teacher.

Buddy DeFranco and Eddie Daniels recommend Smith's book because Smith has some of those same qualities.

Post Edited (2014-02-13 16:38)

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