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 Re: For Those Interested in Playing Traditional Jazz
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2020-07-08 00:27

Ruben,

Yes, you have to hear Alberts in person to know how the sound manifests itself like a genie emerging from a magic lamp.

I have never heard of a New Orleans Jazz player owning or playing a clarinet made by the Albert family in Belgium. Are those about as rare as saxophones made by Adolphe Sax? The trad players' Albert system instruments were made mostly by Selmer, Pedler, Buffet, Penzell-Muller and (maybe?) Conn. Dr. Michael White and Evan Christoper would know much more. You should contact them.

In several cities worldwide there are little niches of New Orleans jazz clubs. Your market for Albert clarinets might be good in those rarefied places. Here in New Orleans, the clubs on Frenchman street at the edge of the quarter might be a place to start. (Word would probably quickly spread out from there). If you can make some that play like the Selmer Improved model, you'll have buyers.

My own rare attempts to play New Orleans jazz are quite humorous. In high school, I entered a talent show playing the Cozy Cole hit "Topsy II" and what I thought was an imitation of Pete Fountain's solo on Tin Roof Blues. My band won but on the way out a well known jazz player told me "you play classical music with soul, man." So, I guess my attempt at jazz sounded pretty classical. When I later listened to a tape of the performance I absolutely did not recognize myself. I thought I was going to sound like Pete Fountain but wound up sounding more like a brighter toned devotee of post-bop clarinetist Alvin Batiste (not nearly as good as Batiste, though). So much for my contribution to New Orleans jazz. I love listening to it but it refuses to come out the other end of my horn.



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