clifford_thornton Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 Mann? He did a whole record on bass clarinet. I had no idea. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 An interesting instrument, especially in the the hands of Eric Dolphy. In my opinion he is the top player While definitely a major influence on the instrument, would it be fair to say he may not be the only valuable game in town? Dolphy is a huge, huge figure in this music but there are other bass clarinetists I listen to with more frequency and attention nowadays. Thoughts? Quote
Homefromtheforest Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 Outside of Dolphy my favorite bass clarinet players are Louis Sclavis and Michel Portal. I've seen some monster live shows from Sclavis in the 90s where he left my jaw on the floor! Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 Bob Mintzer on Don Grolnick's "Weaver of Dreams" and Marty Ehrlich on Grolnick's "Nighttown" are both very good. Issued together as "The Complete Blue Note Recordings". Check out this track: http://youtu.be/6t-wyT3o6pw Quote
mikeweil Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 Mintzer plays bass clarinet on one or two tracks of several of his albums - always a treat. Second the recommendation of those Grolnick albums, great music. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 Would be interesting to see if the op has any further input... Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 And didn't Buddy DeFranco do an album under L. Feather's auspecies on Bass clarinet with the then current Jazz Messengers? I think I own this...or maybe it was a dream? Quote
medjuck Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 I just saw a Cassandra Wilson concert where he reed player often used a bass clarinet. (I forget his name.) Quote
colinmce Posted March 5, 2015 Report Posted March 5, 2015 And didn't Buddy DeFranco do an album under L. Feather's auspecies on Bass clarinet with the then current Jazz Messengers? I think I own this...or maybe it was a dream? Pretty much. He played it on Blues Bag (Vee-Jay, 1964) with Blakey, Victor Sproles, Freddie Hill or Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller & Victor Feldman. It was part of the Feather Encyclopedia of Jazz. Very, very weird one, as you can tell. They do Ornette's "Blues Connotation"! Quote
JSngry Posted March 5, 2015 Report Posted March 5, 2015 Recently discovered this, not a player, but a piece. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 5, 2015 Report Posted March 5, 2015 Berio is an amazing composer. Nono did compose for contrabass clarinet and electronics as well, beautiful stuff. Caught James Falzone's Renga Ensemble last night - Vandermark, Stein and Rothenberg all busting out bass clarinets and Keefe Jackson on contrabass clarinet. Excellent music. Quote
optatio Posted March 5, 2015 Report Posted March 5, 2015 I have sent Gunter Hampel (*1937) a link to this topic. Here is his answer - with his permission: "1964. Eric Dolphy was checking my vibraphone, I got bis bassclarinet on my request. I play clarinet since I was 11. After we both had a jam, he on my vibes, I on his bcl, Eric said, I should buy me one! Some times later, 1966, I was playing with my quintet at the Blue Note in Paris, opposite the Kenny Clarke Quintet. They played one set, we played one set, 3 or 4 times each night. Kenny was holding drumworkshops at Selmer. They sold me a flute and a bassclarinet. I got the one, which goes to the low Bb, which I still play today. On my recording "The 8th of July 1969" I pinned sections with two bassclarinets (me and Willem Breuker, who was playing in my band for over 6 years) + a contrabassclarinet (Anthony Braxton) + Jeanne Lee on voice and great Steve McCall on drums. A few years later I got from Selmer a contrabassclarinet from wood. Anthony's is from metal. If you like, you can go to "youtube" and hear and see a piece I performed solo in the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin on that huge horn. I used to play both bcl and contra-bcl a lot with the Galaxie Dream Band, in which I was featuring a string unit with violin, cello and two contrabasses and a clarinet group with two clarinets, alto-clarinet and bassclarinet. It is all documented on Birth Records + voice of Jeanne Lee a.o. ... and still available." Quote
Guy Berger Posted March 5, 2015 Report Posted March 5, 2015 Harry Carney played bass clarinet occasionally in the Ellington band. I seem to recall it being particularly prominent during one portion of TONE PARALLEL TO HARLEM. Glad someone mentioned Bennie Maupin. He's great on BITCHES BREW, and also on THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted March 5, 2015 Report Posted March 5, 2015 Harry Carney played bass clarinet occasionally in the Ellington band. I seem to recall it being particularly prominent during one portion of TONE PARALLEL TO HARLEM. Glad someone mentioned Bennie Maupin. He's great on BITCHES BREW, and also on THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS. In "live" situations Harry Carney played bass clarinet in a number of compositions. Quote
David Ayers Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 Chris Cundy http://www.chriscundy.com Just heard him perform a magnificent set - something by Wolff and a piece by Ton De Leeuw called 'Mountains' (http://webshop.donemus.com/action/front/sheetmusic/1360/Mountains) Oh here is the Wolff piece https://soundcloud.com/chris-cundy/christian-wolff-isnt-this-a Quote
Late Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) Do not miss this one. Two (bass and Bb) clarinet front line — Marty Ehrlich and Ben Goldberg. Pianoless quartet. Check out sound samples here. Denis Colin recorded Trois in 1992. Fascinating trio recording of: • bass clarinet • cello • zarb & berimbau Edited March 6, 2015 by Late Quote
uli Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) Chris Cundy http://www.chriscundy.com Just heard him perform a magnificent set - something by Wolff and a piece by Ton De Leeuw called 'Mountains' (http://webshop.donemus.com/action/front/sheetmusic/1360/Mountains) Oh here is the Wolff piece https://soundcloud.com/chris-cundy/christian-wolff-isnt-this-a talking about wolff .Was listening to this recently[tilbury/snowdrops) checking out Roland Dahinden on the tube and also this by the alphorn/ trombone player/ braxton collaborator/composer.inspired by Jackson Polock and Eric Dolphy's Serene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_w1ULt27r8 Edited March 6, 2015 by uli Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) There's also a Colin solo bass clarinet disc on In Situ that I haven't heard, but it's probably good. From 1990 so not that easy to find. Edited March 6, 2015 by clifford_thornton Quote
mjazzg Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 Chris Cundy http://www.chriscundy.com Just heard him perform a magnificent set - something by Wolff and a piece by Ton De Leeuw called 'Mountains' (http://webshop.donemus.com/action/front/sheetmusic/1360/Mountains) Oh here is the Wolff piece https://soundcloud.com/chris-cundy/christian-wolff-isnt-this-a Yes, of course. I'd recommend his duo album with Dominic Lash 'Two Plump Daughters' on Creative Sources Quote
B. Clugston Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 talking about wolff .Was listening to this recently[tilbury/snowdrops) checking out Roland Dahinden on the tube and also this by the alphorn/ trombone player/ braxton collaborator/composer.inspired by Jackson Polock and Eric Dolphy's Serene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_w1ULt27r8 That's Hugo Queirós on bass clarinet in the clip. He's got lots of videos up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JeBmqf-x5s Quote
David Ayers Posted March 7, 2015 Report Posted March 7, 2015 I don't know if there is any bass clarinet on this, but a project in which Chris Cundy is involved is available here as a free download.An LP is also available. https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/risaikuru Quote
ornette Posted March 8, 2015 Report Posted March 8, 2015 Seeing Michael Moore referenced above prompted me to get out the three cds by Jewels and Binoculars on which he plays some lovely bass clarinet. Quote
mracz Posted March 12, 2015 Report Posted March 12, 2015 John Gilmore: Fantastic solo on Andrew Hill's Compulsion, and some great spots with Sun Ra (I think the big feature is called Adventure/Equation, can't remember which album it's on). He said that he loaned his instrument to a colleague who dropped it and broke it and that he (Gilmore) never played it again. Eloe Omoe did some great bass clarinet work on some of Ra's 70s albums as well, including one on the long bonus track on the Universe in Blue reissue that has shown up on ITunes, Spotify, eMusic, etc. And I think Robert Cummings (sic?) had some impressive solo spots in the 60s with Ra as well. Apologies for being to lazy to look up the details! No discographies to hand at the moment... Quote
mracz Posted March 12, 2015 Report Posted March 12, 2015 Adventure/Equation is of course on Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy! A classic performance. Quote
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