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Author: Mirko996
Date: 2015-05-23 15:39
I opened another thread to always hear your and the clarinetists you like
My preferite clarinettist is Tony Scott or Antony Joseph Sciacca (i have three vinyls of him):
Is very incredible clarinettist and i hope one day i will be like him, my preferite piece of him is Blues For Charlie Parker and Nina's Dance
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-05-23 18:11
My current favorite is Fabrizio Meloni of La Scala. One VERY musical dude.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-05-24 05:49
Meloni gave a great master class at Manhattan several years ago. His English is not good, so he spoke Spanish to Pascual MartÃnez Forteza, who translated.
His site shows a number of recordings, but I haven't been able to find any of them. If anyone has a source, please let me know.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Wes
Date: 2015-05-24 06:01
Once in New York, I went to hear the great Tony Scott play in a club. It was not so good because he played very flat in pitch that night.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-05-24 21:08
Jon Manasse: whose tone and technique are, IMHO, are as close to perfection as one could hope for on clarinet.
I may be biased given his being my age and locale contemporary, (always playing 2nd chair to him) and seeing him rise since High School.
..nice to know, I suppose, that if you got beaten out, that the person who did so was enormously talented (and deserved to win)
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-05-26 04:35
There are probably more excellent clarinetists performing in the world today than in any previous era--all very much worth listening to. If I had to pick just two that I most enjoy hearing, they would be Wenzel Fuchs of the Berlin Philharmonic on the Oehler (he plays a Wurlitzer) clarinet and Seunghee Lee on the Boehm (most of her recordings have been on a Chadash). Both are lyrical players who know how to shape a phrase, and both have sounds that just feel right for the 21st-century clarinet--respectful of tradition but not slavishly bound by it.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-05-26 16:23
I'm trying to think of any clarinetists I *don't* like and I'm not coming up with any names. Clarinet players face more ruthless competition than players of the more popular solo instuments (violin and piano) because clarinet players are so much less in demand. But among all the fine clarinetists who've survived this weeding-out process, one of my favorites is Antony Pay. He doesn't need miracles of modern engineering, btw. I've heard him play brilliantly in live performance.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2015-05-26 17:34
A few of the players I get a lot out of and return to on an almost daily basis:
Artie Shaw
Benny Goodman
Pete Fountain
Johnny Dodds
George Lewis
Sidney Bechet
Acker Bilk
and, for this BBoard especially, though I don't listen much to classical players,
Reginald Kell
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-05-26 18:50
Eric,
Yes, those "trad" and "swing" players continue to inspire, and I also like Al Batiste's forays into the listenable avant guarde on the clarinet. One player who maybe could have been better known on the clarinet was Sam Most, who made his reputation as a stalwart California studio player specializing in the flute family and was also cool on tenor sax. Many have forgotten just how well he had adopted both the be-bop and cool jazz styles on the clarinet before he moved to the West Coast. On clarinet he had great facility, especially in the altissimo, and was well on his way to developing his own distinctive style.
Bethlehem has released a big band album Most did with New York players called "Sam Most Plays Bird, Bud, Monk, and Miles." The band is very tight and disciplined and swings in a nice groove, with Sam Most fronting on clarinet.
One track, Bud Powell's "Strictly Confidential," arranged by Bob Dorough, can be heard here (scroll all-the-way-down to find it):
http://www.jazzwax.com/2013/09/sam-most-on-bop-clarinet.html.
There are some even rarer recordings Most did with just piano and rhythm section that are worth hearing, but I have no idea of how to locate them.
Post Edited (2015-05-26 22:18)
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Author: knotty
Date: 2015-05-26 19:03
I remember Pete Fountain when he was a young lad on the Lawrence Welk show and still listen to him. I guess nostalgia has something to do with it. There are so many great players today but the big band era is my fav.
~ Musical Progress: None ~
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2015-05-26 19:10
Doreen Ketchens from New Orleans...would LOVE to hear her play in person.
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Author: TomS
Date: 2015-05-26 20:44
I really liked Pete Fountain ... but Doreen Ketchens is better at straight-ahead Dixieland playing, IMHO.
Pete did some stuff that was awesome back in the 1960s .. listen to the album "Plenty of Pete".
Too many other jazz players to mention. I love them all.
Classical there are many, but Stoltzman in his prime, is one of my favorites.
Tom
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2015-05-27 01:31
Yeah Bob--
There have been so many bop clarinetists out there that it's silly each generation claims to be "updating" jazz clarinet to the language of...Bird (who died two decades before I was born). Tony Scott, Stan Hasselgard, Buddy deFranco, Bill Smith, Sam Most, Eddie Daniels...I think bop has been pretty well digested in jazz clarinet history.
As you know, I sometimes use ideas that have a tangential relationship to bop...the legacy of 'modern' jazz is a part of my technique in some ways. It's of more technical than expressive interest, though, and I've rarely heard a bop clarinetist that I've wanted to listen to with more than clinical (or novelty) interest. In all honesty, I think the general public feels the same way!
Many of us are playing a "Roots Jazz" style now, though, that's not exactly trad or revival (though it follows that aesthetic more closely than bop). It's something new--no longer slavishly dedicated to 'modern' jazz orthodoxy, or trad jazz revivalism. And audiences, at least here in Cleveland, are reacting very well to it.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: slickam
Date: 2015-05-28 09:25
A lot of my favourites have already been mentioned, but one who hasn't is Michael Heitzler. He's done some excellent recordings with Kolsimcha.
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