[Dixielandjazz] Fun Clarinet

[Robert Newman]

Garsh, Don -- Thanks for the kind words.   I thoroughly enjoy your cool bone 
work on the SOB and Nighthawks discs with great respect.

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Ingle" <cornet at 1010internet.com>
To: "Robert Newman" <bobngaye at surewest.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fun Clarinet


> Robert Newman wrote:
>> Who plays the fine, fun claRinet on the Legalzoom TV commercials? 
>> What a happy, zappy, snappy sound.    Could it be Evan -- or Butch?
>> What fun.
>>
>> 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
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