Word: clarinetist
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...Clarinetist Prince Robinson ("Say he's from New Orleans," says Max. "That's a good place to be from.") is an Armstrong alumnus from way back, and does indeed play in the very ancient Crescent City tradition. Kaminsky blows his horn with a sharper, thinner tone and with less imagination than in past days; it comes out a New York or modern-Chicago style. And trombonist Munn Ware alternates strangely between a "suffering" blues tone and the most modern, polished sound of the three...
...charity ward of San Francisco Hospital last week a reporter found a wasted, melancholy man who had once tootled with the top jazz men in the land. Now, his money all spent, his liver almost gone from years of lost weekends, famed Hot Clarinetist "Pee Wee" Russell still had "a chance to live," the doctors said...
...Angeles jazz fans, eager for more of the blast and blare of Memphis Blues and Black and Blue, peered through the haze of a nightclub called Tiffany's one night last week at a sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts...
...last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through a closet in her family's Manhattan apartment, came across a dusty tin box full of acetate (test) records. It took her father, Bandleader and Clarinetist Benny Goodman, a minute or two to recall what they were ("I put them away so carefully I couldn't find them...
...before they played at the Freshman Smoker, the entire group trooped down to join the musicians' union, because New Orleans clarinetist Edmond Hall was coming out from the Savoy to play with them "and the union was watching us like a hawk." Shortly afterwards they played for the Radcliffe freshmen at Agassiz Hall, where they were paid off in rye smuggled in by an admiring Cliffe girl...