[Dixielandjazz] KENNY DAVERN & Albert

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In a message dated 6/5/2009 1:05:55 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com writes:

Dear  Tito:

Early on, Davern played an Albert System clarinet and sounded  very  
much like a New Orleans player. He learned to play with an  Albert when  
in grammar school. He later switched to Boehm, but  played both systems  
for a while. First time I saw him, he was about  15 and playing an  
Albert.

Cheers,
Steve  Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband




Steve,
Are you sure he didn't learn on the Boehm first THEN during his "revivalist 
 period" (he
used to call it) switched to Albert for five or so years THEN went back to  
Albert.
Better ask his biographer Ed Meyer.     
I think he sold his Alberts to Evan Christopher, you could ask him, as  
well.
 
Regards,
Mark Weber
Albuquerque USA
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