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KENNY DAVERN: I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Musicmasters). If tone, swing and dexterity are the prime criteria for jazz clarinet playing, color Kenny Davern a virtuoso. Hot (Royal Garden Blues) or cool (My Melancholy Baby), Davern gives a dazzling performance that shows why he's such a standout among the post-Goodman generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Feb. 12, 1990 | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne; and a clarinet concerto for Stanley Drucker and the New York Philharmonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where The Old Joins the New | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...jazz club one night a week, and there have been feelers from several European jazz festivals. The tapes are always rolling during the rehearsals, moreover, so there is a chance that the sessions could ultimately produce something Woody has long resisted: a record featuring him on clarinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...would be a mistake to see Woody Allen's obsession with the clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Every Monday night, before packed houses, Woody Allen plays jazz clarinet with the same ardor and style that he puts into his films, but he's never been one to blow his own horn about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 17 OCTOBER 23, 1989 | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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