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Jazz Clarinetist Solo Transcription

Sydney Bechet

1897-1959

Avalon

Blue Horizon

"You gotta mean it and you gotta treat it gentle."

Way down yonder in Neww Orleans

George Lewis

1900-1968

"I am inclined to just write music, and not worry about what people can and can’t do."

Burgundy Street Blues

Edmond Hall

1901-1967

Profoundly Blue

Caravan

It had to be you

"When I got inside, it was a revelation."

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans

Pee Wee Russell

1906-1969

"I learned one thing: how to get where you're going on time."

Years ago

Benny Goodman

1909-1986

Let's Dance

Memories of you

Bei mir bist du schoen

"After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.."

After you've gone

Bugle call rag

Artie Shaw

1910-2004

"The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now."

Back bay shuffle

Jimmy Hamilton

1917-1994

Bonga

Stomping at the savoy

"Can't help swinging."

I can't give you anything but love

Woody Herman

1913-1987

Wood chopper's ball

"Musically, the bebop route was magnificent. But business-wise, it was the dumbest thing i ever did."

Jimmy Giuffre

1921-2008

Past Mistakes

Time will tell

So low

"It’s just one way, and every man must go his own way."

Stella by Starlight

Iranic

Buddy DeFranco

1923-2014

Doxy

Lover man

Makin' Whopee

"When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.."

In a mellow tone

Yardbird suite

Softly as in a morning sun

Eric Dolphy

1928-1964

"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.."

Take the a train

God bless the child

Pete Fountain

1930-2016

Farewell Blues

I found a new baby

"I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.."

Bye bye Bill Bailey

Swanee river rag

Eddie Daniels

1941

Spain

Oleo

Moonglow

"I don't want to talk too much before you hear the music."

Beautiful Love

It had to be you

After you've gone

Paquito D'Rivera

1948

Contradanza

Vals Venezolano No. 3

"Music, was in my soul and in my heart. I never had the idea to do anything else."

South of the waltz

Ken Peplowski

1959

Body and Soul

China Boy

Menina Flor

"Jazz amounts to Blues, your unique sound and the elusive genius of improvisation."

Tiger Rag

Why try to change me now

Doreen Ketchens

1966

"We can play what we want, we can control who comes into the band and who goes out of the band. People hear us from all over the world and call us and they want us to come and play for them."

Victor Goines

1961

Hotter than that

Petite Fleur

Confirmation

"Music is so powerful, how can you not be influenced by it?."

Let's Dance

Waltz beneath the weeping willow