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"Jimmy Giuffre used to play mostly in the lower register on the
clarinet and
rarely went above the break—the end of the first register. We used to kid him by
saying, 'When are you going to play above the break?,' which is a big step when you're learning the clarinet. Jimmy laughed and said, 'I’m
working my way up.' He loved that soft sound."
—Lennie Niehaus [pictured in 1954], during a phone conversation with Marc Myers in March 2010
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Aha! Grand to discover this brief snippet, which MUST be a preview of your upcoming multi-part Niehaus discourse. Who better to tell you, and us, about the Best of the West?
Posted by: Ed Leimbacher | April 25, 2010 at 03:33 PM
Well, that was definitely inadequate--I should have specified I was hoping for Part Two of an over time series of interviews with Niehaus, whose work old and new continues to fascinate. Blame it on my (absent) youth.
Posted by: Ed Leimbacher | April 25, 2010 at 07:11 PM