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Author: Donna
Date: 2001-08-19 07:14
Hi everyone,
Who is your favourite clarinet player? Name more than one if you want.
My personal favourite is Benny Goodman.
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Author: Dave
Date: 2001-08-19 10:22
David Shifrin, Robert Marcellus, Frank Cohen
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Author: ~jerry
Date: 2001-08-19 13:34
Whoever is playing at the moment.
Donna, that's a tough one for me...............I like them all..........right down to my teacher. He has played for thirty+ years, and he played "Summer Time" for me yesterday -- it was my next-to-last lesson with him and I wanted to get a little "jazz" instruction before he goes. He and his 30 year old R13 sounded great.
Someone had given me the written music sheet for this piece and although this is a little advanced for me, I tried playing it and it sounded nothing at all like what it was supposed to. So I folded the title (at the top) back and asked my teacher to play it (without telling him what it was) -- needless to say he picked it up right away. Someone had scribbled Bb Major at the top but my teacher told me that that was not quite correct. It was really G Minor.
Of course Benny and Artie have been long, long time favorites since I used to listen to them on 78rpm records on mom and dad's "victrola". Pete F. is without a doubt, at the top of the list as is Eddie Daniels. I like Stoltzman and his k622 rendition. I heard Sabine Meyer for the first time the other day (for a short while, on the radio) and I liked what I heard. Then there is our very own Bob Sparkman who hangs out here on the BB (although I have not heard from him lately).
I have not heard anything of some of the other artists mentioned in the other posts (I lead a sheltered life) but I have checked at our local music store for something bt Robert Marcellus but nil there. I heard a clarinet piece on the radio the other day (I think it was by von Weber) and think they said the clarinetist was Emma Johnson. Anyone know if I heard wrong?
That's All Folks
~ jerry
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-08-19 15:15
Of the modern "real-pro's" David Shifrin, Sabine Meyer, Richard Stolzman, of the past B G, Artie Shaw, Barney Bigard, Jimmie Dorsey and many others. Don
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Author: Kirk
Date: 2001-08-19 15:29
Since I grew up in New Orleans, La. my favorite is Pete Fountain. His playing inspired and was the main reason I wanted to learn clarinet. My second favorites would be Benny Goodman and Acker Bilk follwed by Billy Vaughn as a distant third.
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Author: William
Date: 2001-08-19 16:17
Jazz: Chuck Hedges, Clarinetist. His Swingtet plays every Wed. at Andy's on Hubbard, in Chicago.
Classical: Hard to say (I like them all--even Stolzman, sometimes), but for the present moment, Larry Combs for sound, musicianship and total control of his instrument.
Country Western: ?? Still listening............here's a real opportunity for some one who has not found his "thing" yet. Good Cl'net'ng, Ya All (YeeHaa)
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Author: Craig1
Date: 2001-08-19 18:31
Benny Goodman
Artie Shaw
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I'd be extremely happy to be able to play like Henry Cuesta (from the Lawrence Welk show) exceptional tone, ease, and improvisation .
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-08-19 19:05
Robert Marcellus, Sabine Meyer and David Shifrin. I know, I'm boring.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2001-08-19 21:36
Jacques Lancelot, Romain Guillot (Paris Opera), Dieter Kloecker. Sabine Meyer, Thea King. For this week, at least.
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Author: connie
Date: 2001-08-19 21:58
After listening to everyone at the ClarinetFest, I have to say I was most knocked over by Ricardo Morales, with Larry Combs a very close second. Pete Fountain has always been my favorite, but that's a whole different world.
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2001-08-19 22:29
Buddy DeFranco. Eddie Daniels.
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Author: Mike Hancock
Date: 2001-08-20 00:15
I agree with all of the above........but here's a vote for Don Byron, particularly his very liquid bass clarinet renditions......
Mike Hancock
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Author: Ralph
Date: 2001-08-20 00:37
Old Timers: Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw
Current: Stoltzman - The recent Aria CD is great
Gervase DePeyer playing chamber music with the Melos Ensemble
Jack Brymer playing Mozart's Concerto
Buddy DeFranco and Don Byron for jazz
Pete Fountain for Dixieland
Franklin Cohen for chamber music
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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2001-08-20 00:55
Michael Collins, David Shifrin, Robert Marcellus, Thea King (sometimes), and my teacher Paul Dean.
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Author: Josh
Date: 2001-08-20 04:16
Robert Spring, Alessandro Carbonare, Emma J, Ricardo Morales, and David Breeden (woo San Francisco!) :-)
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Author: graham
Date: 2001-08-20 07:57
Living: Klocker
Dead: Charles Draper, Reg Kell, Benny Goodman, Harold Wright, Bernard Walton
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Author: graham
Date: 2001-08-20 08:09
Original instruments, not a separate category as such, but I forgot to mention them above:
Anthony Pay, Colin Lawson.
Which gets me thinking.... I have heard both of these players live on several occasions, but out of the group in my first post, I have only heard Goodman live. I know the others entirely from recordings, which must cast doubt on the choice. I must get myself to Germany to listen to Klocker (he never comes to the UK).
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2001-08-20 14:56
I have to agree with Connie. All of the Pros said that RM is with out question the greatest living player today. He is flawless.
I still like Anker Bilk.
Bob
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Author: Donna
Date: 2001-08-20 17:03
By the way, I also like Kenny G too. Although he's a Sax player, I really like his music. I have tried playing his songs in his style using clarinet, but it just sounded different. Ah well, i guess there IS is little different between a sax and a clarinet... ^_^
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Author: Kim
Date: 2001-08-20 17:57
Karl Leister and Charles Neidich are great too!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-08-20 18:17
Bob - I sure as heck wouldn't go out on <b>that</b> limb! One of the finest today - certainly. <b>The</b> finest? Lots of argument there! I don't think you asked <b>all</b> the pros - since I know a few who'd argue heartily with you right now! ;^)
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Author: Dave
Date: 2001-08-20 21:10
I disagree with Bob as well. RM is great but by no means the greatest living player.
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Author: Christoffer
Date: 2001-08-21 23:19
Don Byron. But unlike Mike Hancock, I prefer him when he sticks to the soprano clarinet. When it comes to folk/klezmer stuff, there are people like Petro-Loukas Halkias, Ferus Mustafov, Andy Statman and Kurt Bjorling. As for classical music, I tend to focus on the composer and the actual piece more than on the musicians, whose names I easily forget.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2001-08-25 09:32
Definitely Benny Goodman. I have two CD's of him, and looking for some more....
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Author: Swing Band Queen Katai Katai
Date: 2002-04-07 09:30
It has got to be Benny Goodman, without a doubt. (grins widely)
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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-04-18 16:44
Hey!!! Have any of you heard Wenzell Fucks of the Berlin Phil. This guy has the most amazing control over the instrument. His recent Reger CD on Nazos of the Quintet is wonderful. I think Pascal Moragues is also one truly fantastic player, his Brahms with the Talich is quite good...Best Player? I don't get into that kind of arguement anymore, I play professionally but look at tone as the most important aspect of playing coupled with expression...Jost Michaels was also great in Mozart.
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