Author: seabreeze
Date: 2019-06-10 01:07
The player definitely makes the sound. Bechet is bold, brassy, and bossy like no clarinetist before or after him. Nobody else could get away with that vibrato of his but he makes it uniquely convincing. Bigard has a poignant even mournful kind of velvet darkness that is equally unique. And nobody has ever gotten either the driving, focused intensity of Goodman or the fluid cosmopolitanism of Shaw in a world teeming with imitators. Desmond is just Desmond; I'd love to hear that tape of him playing clarinet that Ruben mentioned if anybody can find it. Someone will come along with a breezy, breathy, intimate stye on clarinet that we have never heard before and make music with it. But my guess is that even that person will not sound like Desmond. On trumpet, Louis is Louis, Clifford, Clifford, and Miles, Miles; the plenitude of imitators never supplants the original.
Post Edited (2019-06-10 03:47)
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