Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-10-09 17:46
There are certainly thousands of clarinetists who started playing the instrument because of Pete Fountain, and this collection of fourteen new transcripts is way better than the comparatively skimpy transcript collections that have been sold commercially. Wu also appears on YouTube, playing short excerpts from several of the transcriptions, including Tiger Rag, Milenberg Joys, I've Found a New Baby, You Can Depend on Me, Jazz Me Blues, Dippermouth Blues, After You've Gone, and Muskrat Ramble.
Wu's discussion of "ghost tonguing" and "half-ghost" tonguing should help players trying to learn jazz clarinet style.
There are other jazz clarinetists whose improvisations are similarly worthy of extensive transcription, analysis, and commentary. Peanuts Hucko and Ed Hall, for example. Also, an ample transcription anthology/dissertation could be done just on 14 different players' recorded versions of the famous clarinet chorus in "High Society."
Post Edited (2020-10-10 04:46)
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