Word: clarinet
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Cooling Off. At first, most of his listeners strained to hear. Then some of those out of range resumed their interrupted conversations, while others, in range, stared across their food & drink in joyless apathy. When Artie picked up his clarinet for a solo, his fans perked up; but out came Nicolai Berezowsky's concerto, and interest palled. Then flashbulbs began to pop; first-night celebrities queued up to have their pictures taken with new Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas...
...earn that kind of praise-and without the carefully arranged six-and eight-horn brass choirs of the big bands to smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made him "a master of musical art comparable only to the great castrati of the 18th Century...
...unmatched technician, is almost crippled by a worthless piano-bass-drum trio behind him. Almost, that is, because he handles his solos--as well as those that ought to be taken by trumpet and trombone--with loving care. "Sister Kate" and "Basin Street Blues" came from his clarinet in almost unbelievable fashion...
...Last week, Cissy Schultz was having the time of her life. The old-guard Seattle Symphony Orchestra board had finally agreed to sponsor the orchestra for the rest of the season and happily ever after. Among their concessions: two musicians (for the rest of this season at least, a clarinet and a French horn) could sit on the board...
...also feels that the U.S. has been made "clarinet conscious" by some of the "other kind" of tootlers, e.g., Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. "What the jazz boys have done with the clarinet," says Kell, "is colossal." Goodman was one of the first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session...