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Author: Ed
Date: 2020-06-03 22:39
I came across him a while back. Good player. He studied with the great Frank Glover from Indianapolis, a really brilliant player who is nowhere near as well known as he should be.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-06-04 07:36
Agreed, Glover is one of the few contemporary jazz clarinetists to have struck out on his own, away from the path established by DeFranco and Daniels, and one of the few to have assimilated the harmonic and melodic patterns of Coltrane and Dave Leiberman on the clarinet without simply copying them. Here he is on a 2017 performance of the standard Yesterdays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7wv5XBYoEQ
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Author: Ed
Date: 2020-06-04 15:22
I heard Frank when Siamese Twins was first released. It is a collaboration with with his late duo partner Claude Sifferlen. I am happy to see that it was recently rereleased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrvRnchZ8nw&list=OLAK5uy_mcMyrdwsM6Af4MJ8N4suZAXsbXVAIqXts&index=1
On first hearing, I was blown away. The dialogue and interplay between the two players is incredible and the album's title is a very apt description. You often hear players out of the swing or bop tradition, but as you mention, Glover really digested and incorporated the modern jazz vocabulary and phrasing and reinvented how the clarinet can be played. His command of the instrument is stunning and he is a very musical and inventive player.
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Author: hans
Date: 2020-06-04 20:08
To me the Glover performance isn't great jazz - it's simply a "note salad".
Chacun a son gout I suppose.
Hans
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