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Re: Portnoy on Embouchure

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-11-18 07:40

Well, I'm not sure any of the New Orleans players "rejected" academic traditions. I'd say instead that they assimilated them and decided if and how they might use relevant parts of each. Lorenzo Tio, for example, who taught so many of the early jazz clarinetists reportedly gave very strict and demanding lessons and wanted his students to know how to read music and sight read well, so they could also play in the "society orchestras" of the day. He did not believe in playing just by ear or disdaining the conventions of written music. Dr. White is a paid academic at a New Orleans university, where he is a professor of Romance languages. He has very recently been taking lessons from a clarinetist in the Louisiana Philharmonic, and he had a long friendship with modern jazz clarinetists like Jimmy Hamilton and Alvin Basiste. He plays Boehm system clarinets (including one made by Wurlitzer in Germany) with the avowed purpose of getting a fresh take on the old Albert sound out of the Boehm instrument. That effort embodies assimilation more than rejection.

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