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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-08-31 12:31
To get the ball rolling, I would recommend Pascal Moraguès, the great clarinetist of the Orchestre de Paris. Some of his master classes are in French; some in English (he speaks excellent English). I've also learned a lot from watching master classes involving other instruments: the violinist Maxime Vengerov and some singers, for example. The trouble with many of these classes is that the teacher stops the student at every measure!
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Author: ACCA
Date: 2023-08-31 16:35
not masterclasses, but the Larry Combs orchestral excerpts clips are excellent learning material. Also, his recorded tone e.g. on his demonstrations of Capriccio Espagnol, is the best I have found on youtube.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-08-31 21:24
Isserlis is wonderful! articulate, intellectual and helpful. We can learn from the practice of other instruments. After all, music is music. Menuhin once said that his best violin teacher was his yoga instructor!
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2023-08-31 22:27
First off - thanks for the topic Ruben! What a neat idea (Over the next days/weeks I'll be working my way through the videos others share.)
My personal favorites (especially for folks just starting to understand early jazz), are these by the "Jazz at the Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy" featuring Evan Christopher and Eli Yamin:
Intro to Improvising
Collective Improv
Meaningful Solos
There are many others if you search the "Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy" YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/@JazzAcademy)...but Evan also did a series with Yaakov Hoter that is outstanding...here's the first one of those:
Evan and Yaakov
I'd love to see more jazz players put out such content.
Fuzzy
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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-09-01 00:21
There's a lot of Karl Leister teaching on YouTube. The man is rather gruff and disorganised, but their are also many insights. And he is Karl Leister, after all, so he has seen it all; played it all.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-09-03 16:50
There are several youtube videos in which Pavarotti discusses singing. He was generally thought to be a purely instinctive artist, whereas actually, he was very conscious of what he was doing. Much of what he says is applicable to clarinet playing. Karl Leister cites him as an influence.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2023-09-03 19:30
Hey ruben, you're going to make me hijack a thread! Singing has revealing connections with the voicing of sound on the clarinet. After I listen to great singers, I fool around trying to imitate aspects of their sound and style. I'll look for the Pavarotti vids you mentioned.
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2023-09-03 22:20
Philip & ruben,
I agree that great vocalists are wonderful to learn from. In my case, Louis Armstrong - his vocals, timing, phrasing, and ideas in general (to me) match or surpass his trumpet playing. Likewise, Jack Teagarden, Bing Crosby, etc. I listen to their vocals for direction.
Evan Christopher mentions in one of his "master class" videos that the early New Orleans clarinetists tried to mimic the various opera sounds, etc. I can hear that in the music of the era.
ruben - I'm embarrassed to admit that I had never heard of Karl Leister before, but I have loved what I've seen of his master classes so far. (I don't find him gruff at all.)
Fuzzy
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