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 Re: Lester Young on clarinet
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2014-05-09 20:43

The New Orleans tradition of clarinet playing, both in its Crescent City origins and its various permutations in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere (including Europe and Asia) is very real and very much still alive. Someone trying to grasp this continuing tradition might start by reading Tom Sancton's book, Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White (New York: Other Press, 2006).

Scanton apprenticed himself at a young age to traditional New Orleans Albert-system Jazz player George Lewis. The book recounts in a very literate and entertaining way the whys and hows of this voluntary tutelage. Scranton learned his lessons pretty well, and today performs professionally in New Orleans in the traditional jazz tradition.

Another interesting sociological foray into the culture of New Orleans Jazz clarinet is Julie Ann VanGuzen's 2012 honors thesis written for The School of Arts and Sciences at Rhode Island College: The Chameleon Clarinet: Cultural and Historical Perspectives in American Thought in the 20th Century (available in its entirety on the Net). She moved to New Orleans to do her research, asked some of the right people some of the right questions, and got some of the right answers. What she missed, I think, is how the New Orleans tradition was adapted in the 1960s by Alvin Batiste to branch out into the avant guard (hand in hand with Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane, et al.), but perhaps that is another story.
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