
Oh go on then, here’s another one… https://youtube.com/watch?v=SwGf1cKTbvE%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded ‘Clarinet Marmalade’, Jach Maheu
It’s Tuesday, but it’s actually Wednesday (and by the time you read this it may even be Thursday or any other of the days)! That can mean several things, but in this context it means it’s time for another of my beautiful jazz transcriptions. This week I continue my enduring survey of great artists’ …
This week’s edition of TTBOAW(BOAT) sees me sticking with the undisputed greatest piece of art ever created, and taking a look/listen at/to a 1939 radio performance of Clarinet Marmalade, by Benny Goodman and his eponymous orchestra. As is often the case with big band arrangements, there’s not a huge amount of actual soloing in this. …