[Dixielandjazz] Woody Allen

[Eddy]

I suppose Louis Armstrong was severely restricted also? Since he chose to perform in one genre. He didn't play Bop or do studio work or anything else. (Like Bucky has) I get what you people are after -- you want to compare every clarinet player to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw or even Ken Peplowski or Kenny Davern. Well, music for a lot of us is not a contest. Maybe you think it should be -- well, everything is not how we think it should be. Some of us are just trying to get throw life as enjoyable as we can and not try to harm anyone else. Especially ones who never set out to harm us. Most of you people had your minds made up before you ever heard Woody (maybe you really never have heard him). If you read the article you would have read that he likes all forms of jazz and swing -- he just wants to play a little prehistoric jazz -- sorry he stepped on your toes. Eddy



On Jun 4, 2010, at 11:18 PM, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:

> Anyone who heard Woody Allen's BBC Radio 3 series some years ago would appreciate that his approach to the clarinet is actually excessively academic, for in that series he explored the stylistic and other genuine complexities of a range of clarinetists who stand in relation to Buster Bailey almost as John Lee Hooker does to Bucky Pizarelli. Actually Hooker could be more interesting, but only over a severely restricted range, Strictly he couldn't play guitar, he could only play blues on guitar.
> His later success had to be managed with expert support.
> Prior to which, as has been said about Allen, he went around and a lot of people were put off. 
> Allen should probably find himself a protege or someone to champion -- there surely are some very good clarinetists he could afford, with a stylistic capacity to work beside him  -- and actually be telling the truth when he told the audience how good the other player was. Humphrey Lyttelton's recorded book would afford ample precedent for Allen repertoire performances with two clarinets. 
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