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Re: Unaccompanied Jazz Clarinet Solos

Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2016-05-15 07:10

A jazz clarinet solo is, by definition, improvised by the performer. Though you may base it off a previously composed tune, and play that as the "head", the choruses you take must be your own extemporaneous musical invention. If it's not done that way, it's not jazz.

Because of this, any tune you choose, so long as you can solo on it convincingly enough for five or ten minutes, would suffice. If you can't solo on a tune convincingly for that duration, than playing unaccompanied jazz is not for you.

Eric

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