Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chiefly by a well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today, and where last week he let Rex and Ben Webster loose, so today it may be Bigard's clarinet, Hodges' alto, or any of three trombones, which gets a chance to dazzle. And since Ellington is generally conceded to be at least a decade ahead of everyone, except perhaps his imitators, that record will be worth hearing--more than once...
...that jazz is serious. At the moment a hot guitarist, academically introduced as a "demonstrator of social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler, Pianist Alec Templeton, and the dogged panel of classicists. By that time the classicists more or less agreed: it would be all right for Manhattan's Station WQXR to broadcast blues...
...other days, it would have been called Gems from Show Boat. Ol' Man River rolled in on the violas and bass clarinet...
...just over six years since Benny Goodman brought a clarinet and thirteen musicians into a stodgy Chicago hotel to open a brief engagement wangled for him by an astute manager. Eight months later he was still packing them in on the same spot, "The Music Goes 'Round" was already out of the public ear for good, and the diluted jazz called swing was just beginning a successful job of artificial respiration on a music business which was on the verge of going down for the third time in the high seas of the depression...
...Robert Sprenkle, Bassoonist Vincent Pezzi, Clarinetist Rufus Arey; Victor; four sides). These works, by three teachers and a recent graduate of the nourishing Eastman School of Music, are easy to hear. Wayne Barlow's oboe rhapsody, The Winter's Past, says its piece most persuasively. Others: Serenade (clarinet) by Homer Keller; American Dance (bassoon) by Burrill Phillips; Soliloquy (flute) by Bernard Rogers...