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 Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:02 pm
Definitly! If there can be jazz-bass clarinet. There should be jazz-clarinet.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:34 pm
in my school we have a jazz band and there are a lot of clarinets in it
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:45 pm
SirSquintus Definitely! If there can be jazz-bass clarinet. There should be jazz-clarinet. Even though everyone knows bass pwns soprano any day? (kidding- or am I? xd ) Our jazz band has no clarinets. It barely has saxes. And I understand why. It's obnoxious. I know there can be GOOD jazz clarinetists, but they are few and far between. Much of jazz music for clarinet ends up just being a series of squeaks anyway. And no one wants to listen to that. Few composers of jazz even score for clarinet anymore. It's a dying thing. I can see why there might be a need for them. I mean, even in regular bands and marching bands, clarinets make good filler instruments. Like they add a tone to the band that you definitely notice missing if it indeed is. But I don't think they're always necessary as melody or solo instruments. Saxes do just fine for jazz.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:29 pm
Clarinets should defiantely be in Jazz
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:36 pm
Mangolyn SirSquintus Definitely! If there can be jazz-bass clarinet. There should be jazz-clarinet. Even though everyone knows bass pwns soprano any day? (kidding- or am I? xd ) Our jazz band has no clarinets. It barely has saxes. And I understand why. It's obnoxious. I know there can be GOOD jazz clarinetists, but they are few and far between. Much of jazz music for clarinet ends up just being a series of squeaks anyway. And no one wants to listen to that. Few composers of jazz even score for clarinet anymore. It's a dying thing. I can see why there might be a need for them. I mean, even in regular bands and marching bands, clarinets make good filler instruments. Like they add a tone to the band that you definitely notice missing if it indeed is. But I don't think they're always necessary as melody or solo instruments. Saxes do just fine for jazz. Good point about the squeaks. But clarinets are sometimes used to "smear" notes by not covering their holes. A effect that is nice in jazz. Besides that.. Nyeh... I know bass clarinets do "slap-tounging". Which is fun stuff.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:41 pm
I never thought of that, I should ask my band director! O:
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:17 am
Mangolyn SirSquintus Definitely! If there can be jazz-bass clarinet. There should be jazz-clarinet. Even though everyone knows bass pwns soprano any day? (kidding- or am I? xd ) Our jazz band has no clarinets. It barely has saxes. And I understand why. It's obnoxious. I know there can be GOOD jazz clarinetists, but they are few and far between. Much of jazz music for clarinet ends up just being a series of squeaks anyway. And no one wants to listen to that. Few composers of jazz even score for clarinet anymore. It's a dying thing. I can see why there might be a need for them. I mean, even in regular bands and marching bands, clarinets make good filler instruments. Like they add a tone to the band that you definitely notice missing if it indeed is. But I don't think they're always necessary as melody or solo instruments. Saxes do just fine for jazz.
you are right about the squeaks.
HOWEVER
clarinets ARE really nice solo/melody instruments...
to me anyway.
and I think, with practice, I, and other jazz clarinets COULD overcome the squeaks.
and about the music...
we could play trumpet or tenor sax parts!
but you DO bring up a good point.
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:57 am
Play like Benny Goodman or Eric Dolphy or Eddie Daniels and you'll definately get into jazzband.
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Fashionable Conversationalist
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:02 pm
Jazz has its roots in ragtime, and the clarinet was one of the original ragtime instruments. Of course, it's been in jazz since the dawn of jazz history, and it should stay
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:31 pm
I played jazz clarinet in my middle school jazz band. But my high school director wont hear of it. He won't let me march bassoon either. He has his list of definite does and don'ts, and refuses to sway from it. I think if done right it can sound good. if your good with it, GO FOR IT!
-Jenthic
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:14 pm
I play clarinet and my band teacher let me and only like 2 other clarinets b in Jazz band because he said "Clarinets arent really a Jazz instrument but u 3 can make it sound like one sometimes"
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:37 pm
I am going to quote my private lessons teacher on this.
there is no such thing as a jazz instrument, only jazz music.
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:14 pm
& K y n a s a y s; ♥
I'm bringing this thread back,
okay?
I WILL NOT LET THIS DIE!! scream
 awww
aint he cute?! You taught my heart, a sense I never knew I had ♥
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:50 pm
Dude, having clarinet players in jazz bands are so awesome. You know sometimes you need to have the clarinet texture in a band? Well, clarinets sound so vibrate!
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:51 pm
BandNerdsRHot I play clarinet and my band teacher let me and only like 2 other clarinets b in Jazz band because he said "Clarinets arent really a Jazz instrument but u 3 can make it sound like one sometimes" OMG!! I love your signature!!
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