Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confident that he has now achieved his life's ambition-"to be to the flute what Benny Goodman is to the clarinet"-Mann is looking for new worlds of music to translate into the third thing. "At the moment," he says, "I'm very interested in American Indian music. There's more to it than just boom-boom, boom-boom, you know. The possibilities are endless...
...Schubert, when a clarinet begins, we can be sure that it will stay for four measures, at least. This is no longer true...
...style shines through almost every bar of such half-roasted chestnuts as Never on Sunday and I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Oldtime Ellington Saxpots Jimmy Hamilton (tenor), Johnny Hodges (alto) and Harry Carney (baritone) add to the luster. Standouts are Russell Procope's low-register clarinet solo in More and Cootie Williams' soaring trumpet work on Fly Me to the Moon. And binding it all together is the deft piano scrimshaw of Ellington himself...
...MOZART: CLARINET QUINTET (London). Serenity and a sense of finality characterize the music Mozart wrote two years before his death. In this harmonious performance, strings and clarinet melt magically together as they trade melodies and take turns outlining the airy ornaments. Members of the Vienna Octet are the players, with Alfred Boskovsky the superb clarinetist...
...main boulevard. On the second, Buddhist monks chanted as the Queen lit candles in the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. On the third, the royal household organized a charity fete, with a specially built nightclub resounding to the King's private orchestra, Bhumibol tootling on the clarinet. After all, his gemlike regent's name translates into "Joy of the Family...