Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-04-16 02:59
The green clarinet kid will probably be playing circles around most of us in a few years. He has good ears and is playing the melody, the embellishments, and the rhythm very true to the musical genre he probably listens to and enjoys. He is already a natural musician of taste and discernment.
I suspect that he has not listened to a great variety of clarinetists old and new and in different musical styles. Some commentators on the YouTube have complained that he sounds more like he is playing soprano sax than clarinet but that may well be because he has heard sax playing much more than clarinet.
Somebody should send him performances by Bechet, Bigard, Goodman, Shaw, DeFranco, Jimmy Hamilton, Eddie Daniels, Alvin Batiste etc. as well as Ricardo, Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Harold Wright, Cahuzac, Anthony McGill, Alfendi Yusuf, Andy Ottensamer, etc., and let him reach his own conclusions. He probably ought to be studying with a good studio player who has plenty of experience playing all types of music. As for "Hot Cross Buns," tenor sax man James Carter said in a master class I attended last year that the one thing he hated most in band class was having to play that dreadful song. He wanted to play Chu Berry and Don Byas tunes.
As for the future, I wouldn't worry about it. Did you notice the vast number of YouTubers who took the time to listen to the green clarinet? How often does our instrument attract that kind of attention? That alone might be enough to make Buffet and Yamaha put out some green clarinets of their own. If Buffet makes a green R13 I like, I might even buy one if the price is right. The future is the future; it will not be like the present, and we all have to get used to that.
Post Edited (2018-04-16 06:42)
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