Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Gunther Schuller, explaining the kind of atonal, far-out compositions that he, John Lewis, Harold Farberman and Bill Smith have written for this album. The results are cooler and more cerebral than those of Eric Dolphy, the late wild-blowing, note-bending alto saxophonist. But Bill Smith (on clarinet) and the other instrumentalists are first-rate, and the music, though it seldom swings, consistently sizzles...
...Stabilizer on clarinet: Quiet, reflective, he is the most musically learned of the woodwind players, serves as the soothing, sympathetic father confessor to his neighbors...
...Glimpses. Back in London such attributes have endeared Davis to the music fraternity, and he is universally praised as the finest conductor to come out of Britain in 30 years. He began as a clarinet player with the Glyndebourne Orchestra, moved to the Sadler's Wells Opera as principal conductor in 1960 and distinguished himself with his command of the Mozart, Stravinsky and Berlioz repertory. Calm and controlled in action, Davis is respected by his musicians as "one of the few English conductors with real fire in his belly...
...came to play host to the King, he summoned Jazz Saxophonist Stan Getz from the U.S. to the affair, held in a borrowed royal banquet hall, as a special gesture of appreciation for the elaborate, if subdued welcome that he had received. Though Bhumibol has played his saxophone and clarinet in swinging sessions with other U.S. jazz groups, on this occasion he sat back and enjoyed the show...
...MOZART: CLARINET QUINTET IN A, AND OBOE QUARTET IN F (Deutsche Grammo-phon). The literature for these instruments, two of the most important in the orchestra, is very limited. These pieces are among their chief showcases. Lothar Koch plays the oboe with spirit in the early, conventional Mozart quartet. Karl Leister is oddly restrained and diffident in the clarinet quintet, and is often overshadowed by the other players, especially Siegbert Ueberschaer's viola. All the performers are with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra...