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Re: Hubert Rostaing-forgotten French jazz and Classical clarinetist

Author: ruben
Date: 2016-07-13 18:40

Eric. Great!! It's a form of music that's sensitive and clear, as you described. It also makes people feel good, and that's not such a bad thing in these troubled times, is it? The clarinet is ideally suited to it. Here in France, a lot of the people playing it are French gypsies ("Manouches", they're called in French) and there are still descendants of the Reinhardt family knocking around. In the last town Django lived in-its name escapes me- there is a yearly festival of "Jazz Manouche" (I use the term Manouche rather than Gypsy because as I said, it specifically relates to France's centuries-old Gypsy community. ) For some reason, the clarinet was not originally a Manouche instrument, though it is a staple of Romanian and all Eastern European Gypsy music. This explains Rostaing's presence, who had to fill Stéphane Grappelly's size 10 shoes during the war (Grappelly was of Italian descent and was from a very "respectable' upper middle-class family.)

rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com

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