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Re: Jazz Clarinet Mouthpieces

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2019-12-23 09:21

Thanks Seabreeze! I couldn't remember the details, but I thought there was a direct lineage to Italian players using the "reed up" technique at some point. Even the potential biographer was stymied by the question of whether Roppolo played that way or (as you mentioned) just posed that way (or was posed that way by the photographer.) Either way, I think it highlights how little we know about the subject of mouthpieces and technique used by many of the players of early jazz.

Another name or two that I'd probably drop onto your list of "folks who might be able to shed some specifics" on the topic of gear used in the pre-bebop era: Clint Baker (California) and Dan Levinson (New York) - at least in specific cases.

Fuzzy

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