[Dixielandjazz] High Society

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

I don't care for the solo because it's a written solo and I think it takes 
it out of the area of Jazz just like the "In The Mood" sax solo.  I just 
have a thing about written solos and I don't like to do something someone 
else has done.  I'm not a tape recorder mindlessly playing back something 
over and over or a camera that just records the image.
Larry Walton
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Guarino" <russg at redshift.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] High Society


>
>
> No one has brought this up, but I find the solo hard to play, not because 
> of the fingering or style, but because I run out of breath.
>
> There are short "commas" in the solo but they go by so fast I can't really 
> get much air. There are a open couple of measures in the
> middle, which I believe, were put there to give the soloist a change to 
> catch his breath, but I find myself still struggling for air.
>
> Russ Guarino
> breathless clarinet maven.
>
> JDut953944 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> This is the rat's patootie to play.  I am fortunate to have the music 
>> for
>> the original solo by Alphonse Picou.  But I have heard other clarinet 
>> players
>> do a very minimal version of it, or change the tempo, or just sort of 
>> not play
>> the whole thing, yet fit it into the song.  I always thought it  sounded 
>> very
>> much like the Clarinet Polka and thought it might be fun to combine  the 
>> two
>> somehow.  I have played High Society in public, so that puts me on  some 
>> kind
>> of a list, somewhere.  Maybe we shouldn't go there!  I  played it the 
>> right
>> way though.
>>
>> Carol, Clarinet
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