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Author: AndyW
Date: 2020-10-09 12:57
I stumbled across this excellent Doctoral dissertation on the technique and style of jazz clarinettist Pete Fountain, by Arizona based woodwind player Shengwen Wu.
I really need to sit down and absorb the contents, plus there's 100 pages (!) of complete Pete Fountain transcribed solos, from some of his finest albums.
Download the dissertation as a PDF here, from Arizona State University:
https://repository.asu.edu/items/53907
Shengwen is also an adept choro, klezmer and classical musician, here's her channel, where, amongst other videos, she plays through some of the Fountain transcriptions.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6lju-u2vmK9bqfVgjr82YQ
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-10-09 17:46
There are certainly thousands of clarinetists who started playing the instrument because of Pete Fountain, and this collection of fourteen new transcripts is way better than the comparatively skimpy transcript collections that have been sold commercially. Wu also appears on YouTube, playing short excerpts from several of the transcriptions, including Tiger Rag, Milenberg Joys, I've Found a New Baby, You Can Depend on Me, Jazz Me Blues, Dippermouth Blues, After You've Gone, and Muskrat Ramble.
Wu's discussion of "ghost tonguing" and "half-ghost" tonguing should help players trying to learn jazz clarinet style.
There are other jazz clarinetists whose improvisations are similarly worthy of extensive transcription, analysis, and commentary. Peanuts Hucko and Ed Hall, for example. Also, an ample transcription anthology/dissertation could be done just on 14 different players' recorded versions of the famous clarinet chorus in "High Society."
Post Edited (2020-10-10 04:46)
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Author: RKing
Date: 2020-10-11 16:28
Thanks for finding this!
As one of those many thousands who fell in love with the clarinet while watching Pete Fountain on "The Lawrence Welk Show", all I can say is "Thanks!" to Ms. Wu for her research and dedication.
Ron
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