Word: clarinetist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of oldfashioned. I think it sort of irks the moderns; it sort of throws them. They've found ways to disguise the sound of other instruments, especially the trumpet. They make it sound soft and low−not like a real trumpet. But any good clarinetist makes it sound like a clarinet. They gotta...
...peons. The landowning politicians of Chile's 19th century- Conservatives who disputed for power with equally conservative Liberals- molded his beliefs to the right. The Chilean cavalry gave him a passion for humorless order; Chileans say that once, for reasons of pure esthetic tidiness, he made a tall clarinetist in a military band trade instruments with a short trombonist...
...Brahms's last compositions, the Clarinet Quintet Op. 115, closed the program. This is one of the most melodic and well-constructed pieces of romantic chamber music. The assisting clarinetist, James Wood, was superb. His tone was sweet though not syrupy throughout the clarinet's large range from pianissimo to fortissimo, and he blended well with violinists Edward Filmanowitz and Ronald Hathaway. All the string players helped bring out the rich Brahms texture. It is unusual to have such a fine student quartet in the University...
Pete Kelly's Blues (Victor & Columbia LPs). Both of these disks offer the same musicians-Clarinetist Matty Matlock and his Jazz Band, including Tenorman Eddie Miller, Guitarist George Van Eps, Drummer Nick Fatool-and eleven of the same tunes from the current movie. Several of the players, once the shock-thatched cream of Chicagoland, are now the cream of Movieland, and their thinning hair is neatly parted...
Nowadays, Trumpeters Allen and Charlie Shavers head two fulltime, six-man bands that include jazz-gifted oldtimers Clarinetist Buster Bailey, Pianist Claude Hopkins, Bassist Milt Hinton, and Trombonist "Big Chief" (350 Ibs.) Russell Moore. With the help of six other mu icians who gather in smaller combos, they play their way from a slow 3 p.m. start to a frenzied 3 a.m. finish...