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 Re: Lester Young on clarinet
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2014-05-25 06:03

Well, Bruno, I just want to tell you that that Youtube video of Gerry Mulligan playing bossa nova on the clarinet has made my day!

There's something about the way the great Bari sax player holds the clarinet that reminds me of the way Robert Marcellus used to hold it. With fondness and respect!

Mulligan sounds really great on the clarinet with his glass mouthpiece (one of the old vintage O'Briens?) and the same puffed out embouchure he used on the big saxophone. Notice he doesn't sound at all like someone trying to play "jazz" on the instrument. He just plays the tune with perfect rhythm--his whole groove is on the rhythms and polyrhythms--no goofy vibrato, smears, or jazz "licks." He doesn't make it sound like a little saxophone either. Making that melody work over all those rhythms is all he cares about, and it makes you want to sing and dance.

Imagine if Mulligan had recorded a Bossa Nova hit like The Girl from Ipanema on clarinet with Astrud Gilberto instead of Stan Getz on tenor sax. It might have changed pop music history.

Listening and watching him play, I could only think, "how beautiful an instrument the clarinet is!"

Other viewers must have felt this too. Look at the Youtube rating! Even the trolls liked Mulligan on clarinet--243 to 0 approval.

This video is priceless. Can you tell us the name of the record (Label and number) that has Zoot Sims and Al Cohn playing clarinet. Sims played with Goodman's band, and Cohn played with Artie Shaw's. Too bad they and Mulligan didn't do more on clarinet--they certainly had the talent to.



Post Edited (2014-05-25 06:28)

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