Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newer, "bigger and better" than ever. Visually tricked out with color, old-fashioned microphones and vignettes of young love (a car radio in a moonlit convertible of the '30s), Swing swung down the nostalgic side of the street. Besides tootling what is still the sweetest clarinet this side of the '30s, Maestro Goodman husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King Porter Stomp, Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson...
...Thanksgiving service in a forbidding old brick building on a hill overlooking Glenwood, Iowa, a trim little man of 67 directed the well-drilled 30-voice choir. Conductor Mayo Buckner is a versatile musician; he sings bass, plays the violin, piccolo, clarinet, flute, bass horn, cornet and saxophone. Though almost entirely self-taught, "Buck" is good enough to have played in the town band. He is also a journeyman printer. His IQ of 120 is well above the national average. Yet for the last 59 years Mayo Buckner has been an inmate of Glenwood State School (for the mentally retarded...
Felt but Not Heard. Jimmy's trio (Giuffre, sax and clarinet; Jim Hall, guitar; Ralph Pena, bass) strutted their stuff one star-studded night last week in the outdoor Wollman Theater in Manhattan's Central Park. Jimmy led the boys through a passel of his favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet...
Jimmy Giuffre first played the clarinet in a Y.M.C.A. band, developed his style out of a distaste for the trancelike monotony of the big jazz rhythm section. In his 36 years he has played with a lot of big outfits-Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Garwood Van, Spade Cooley. When Giuffre got out of the Army, he enrolled at the University of Southern California, became interested in Bartok, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Prokofiev. He began to write "linear" music, in which he tried to keep the rhythm section ("It should be felt rather than heard") from conflicting with other...
...most important of these is the Musician, a dancing clarinetist who weaves in and out of scenes, connects scenes or bridges the passing of time. I once saw this part executed by a fellow who danced while actually playing a clarinet; but such a combination is hard to come by. In this production, Tom Hasson (who devised all the choreography as well) is the Musician. Elmer Gordon's perky and carefully articulated music is expertly played offstage by the talented young clarinetist Paul Epstein, who is also called on to play the tambourine. Onstage, Hasson fingers a clarinet silently...