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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