[Dixielandjazz] Fun Clarinet

[Don Ingle]

Robert Newman wrote:
> Who plays the fine, fun clainet on the Legalzoom TV commercials?     What a happy, zappy, snappy sound.    Could it be Evan -- or Butch?
> What fun.
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> Bob Newman   (Wish I could play like that.)
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You  did -- and I have the Virginia City CD's to prove it!  I agree that 
the commercial had some great clarinet on it, but don't downplay your 
own playing.
Don (who studied arranging with Matty and was close enough to hear he 
and fellow "good players" on West Coast to be a fair judge) Ingle.
Thank goodness we still have some good ones around today to keep the 
sound alive. By the way, though he was noted for his bass sax work, Russ 
Whitman (in CT.) is an awesome clarinet player, and he plays tenor with 
just as fat a sound in the Eddie Miller tradition as you'll find today. 
(He's also a PhD. in nuclear physics. In the Sons Of Bix, we would 
gather close around him in any power failure so we could read the charts 
by the light of his radio-active bod! Ha!)
Staying alive in Michigan where we are winding up the second coldest 
July in history. The last time it was this cold in Summer we still had a 
mastodon hunting season!
Compare that with Portland where they predict 109 degrees F. today (Have 
no idea of what that is in Celius, being in a metric-deprived US of A.)
Regards, with hopes that you find a good reed...the Mount Everest of all 
reed men,
Don