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Author: Wayne
Date: 2001-05-11 05:38
Thanks everyone for suggesting such great jazz albums - really like the Alvin Batiste CD. Are there any good blues clarinet players I should listen to ? Thanks
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Author: Jason
Date: 2001-05-29 07:44
I have an old Cannonball Adderley album where Alvin does a KILLER clarinet solo, he just absolutely wails fire from his ass!!!!! It completely restored my faith in the potential coolness of the clarinet. And the crowd loved it. But then there's the awful cut from Mike Dacey on the same album...what a piece of @!#$, I can't beleive Cannonball included it.
J
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Author: KENOLD
Date: 2003-08-07 01:08
I have tickled this thread hoping to see some more responses. (last post was 2 years ago)
I'm interested in blues clarinet. Have listened a little to Johnny Dodds. Reminds me of Dixiland music. Can anybody suggest artists or albums that feature clarinet played in more of a strictly blues style?
Ken
Ken
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2003-08-07 01:39
Buddy DeFranco did an entire record of blues tunes playing bass clarinet. It was called "Blues Bag", or something like that. Plus Buddy plays great blues on soprano clarinet. And even on non-blues tunes he works in alot of tasty blues licks. Check out some Buddy DeFranco.
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Author: ned
Date: 2003-08-07 06:34
Johnny Dodds is an exceptional player of blues on the clarinet - you can find his stuff on re-issue CDs in specialist stores. Dodds was actively recording from about 1923 with the King Oliver band and later he went on to make many recording in small bands in and around Chicago, under his own name and also with Jimmy Blythe - his best period is mid 20s to 30s.
George Lewis is another very good blues player. Lewis recorded very widely starting with Bunk Johnson in the mid 40s in New Orleans and thereafter with a band in his own name. He has numerous recorded versions of Bergundy Street Blues [his signature tune] and the best of these, in my opinion, is with a spoken vocal by Monetta Moore. His records will be available through the specialist stores too.
There are others of course, but these two are outstanding blues clarinet players.
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Author: deepriver27
Date: 2003-08-07 15:30
Johnny Dodds was awesome with Louis Armstrong too - I especially like Potato Head Blues, which my band has found a score for. Needless to say I've listened to this recording until the laser in the cd player has burned a hole in the disk (not really). We are doing this in a gig soon - (gulp!)
He makes it sound effortless
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-08-07 22:09
There are other clarinettists with their roots in the blues. Try some Pee Wee Russell, early Sidney Bechet and the Ellington clarinettists of which there were many. The "blues" is such a disparate genre stretching from bluegrass through to swing and rock and roll. It is unlikely to find a dedicated blues only clarinettist. The clarinet was generally part of an ensemble and the repertoire of the ensemble was generally broader than just blues.
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Author: ned
Date: 2003-08-07 23:23
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Johnny Dodds was awesome with Louis Armstrong too - I especially like Potato Head Blues, which my band has found a score for. Needless to say I've listened to this recording until the laser in the cd player has burned a hole in the disk (not really). We are doing this in a gig soon - (gulp!)
He makes it sound effortless"
Sounds interesting where is your band located? I get to the USA every January you know I might look out for you if it's in Wash or Philly.
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Author: Barrie Marshall
Date: 2003-08-08 07:05
John Kelly said about George Lewis recording Burgundy St Blues
"Best of these, in my opinion, is with a spoken vocal by Monetta Moore" all I can say is...WOW the clarinet playing behind the vocal is extremely moving.
Also Potato head blues, I have to admit that what moves me on that most is Louis Armstrongs first solo, one of the first things I learned by ear on the clarinet.
The other player I love and cherish playing blues is an obscure clarinet player from New Orleans...Albert Burbank, try and get a recording of him, they called him 'the clarinet wizard'.
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2003-08-08 18:37
I especially like a CD by Leon Cottrell, New Orleans player. It is just himself, a guitar and bass. I think he is playing an Albert system clarinet. I am trying to locate a recording of Omer Simeon, I hope I spelled that right, another early N.O. player.
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2003-08-09 05:45
Bob, that was just great. Wish I understood French. Omer had a great tone, didn't he. Thanks again. Carol
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Author: ned
Date: 2003-08-10 03:19
Carol Dutcher,
Omer Simeon is one of my guiding lights. Look out for a band called Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers (c 1926) Omer Simeon is on quite a number of tunes that Morton recorded in Chicago at this time, also Johnny Doods is there as well, on other sessions.
In particular there is a recording of Dr. Jazz (Hello Central Give Me That................) this number is played in concert Db and Simeon's playing is unbelievably good for such a finga bustin key.
If you can't find any of Simeon's or Morton's recordings in the stores, go to: www.redhotjazz.com
JK
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