[Dixielandjazz] Solos

[Stephen G Barbone]

How do you feel about solos on other instruments, asks Anton.

Like many, I love the clarinet solo on High Society done on other  
instruments. After all didn't it used to be a piccolo solo? <grin>

Then again, I like Dippermouth without the Oliver solo as well as with  
it. Same goes for "Oh Play That Thing".

Once played a gig with a trumpeter, Al Harrison, who could do it and  
also used to crack up when trombonist Glenn Dodson would do the first  
2 bars of it and then slur off into a parody of the next 6 bars. He  
could play a lot of Clarinet songs on trombone.

Did High Society month at a concert by Tex Wydham's Red Lions. After  
the normal clarinet obbligato plus a one chorus improv, then dogfight,  
then Clarinet in low register joined Bass Sax for a same note duet.  
Fun. Especially since we did the solo chorus in Bb instead of the  
normal Eb.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
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