3 Clarinets: Ken Peplowski / Evan Christopher / Anat Cohen - Swing That Music (Louis Armstrong) live 

I love it could listen ALL day this is what made me take up the clarinet. ! Had a fantastic life but can't play like this .but still enjoy it .and hope my students do Bravo Bravo Bravo 🤗

To use the car analogy from above, playing the Albert system horn is like driving a Model A compared to an Indy car. Well sorta. The Boehm system definitely has its advantages.

I agree with you that you can't pick amongst this group. It is a total musical conglomerate! That would be like asking, Which is your most important tire when ur flyin down the freeway ?

Right on, Earle..... loved it... real jazz - and the bass cat is hauling the mail!

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+Rainer Strässle All are great, but Evan's the coolest of an otherwise very hot bunch.

I must agree with you (even my favourite in general is Ms. Cohen. Fantastic!)

bruce miller which is pretty common in this style of music,, but yes myself a big fan

No one gives a fuck.

@@LRS905 touche, no one gives a fuck that you think no one gives a fuck.

@@samking73 Calm down. That angry dude there played his clarinet in his 5th grade talent contest and got beat out by a real cute little 3rd grade baton twirler who dropped her baton three times.

@@bobdillaber1195 sounds about right. They still butthurt after all these years causing them to not give a fuck about the Albert system clarinet. I still dont give a fuck that they dont give a fuck. Lol

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I feel the same about her! Damn!!!

Probably from people jealous that they can't play as well themselves - and know they never will.

raguangel Ken Peplowski is the only who played with Benny Goodman. I love them all but Ken Peplowski will always be at the top for me~

Ken and Alan Barnes play clarinets beautifully together on Barnes' album Happy Reunion

I agree. Pep has this clean, precise phrasing, and a wealth of ideas. And I know that Anat Cohen can play better than this - but I'm simply not fond of her style; she phrases very carelessly, generally, and some notes seem to come out just by chance.

@@mambojazz1Peplowski est le meilleur , pas de doute . Christopher a choisi de jouer plus en finesse , en soignant ses phrasés . Il a bien fait car il a montré ainsi la variété de son jeu . Il a un grand talent . Ken Peplowski jouait comme ça dans sa jeunesse , mais maintenant , il ne fait plus que montrer sa très grande vitesse de jeu........MAIS jouer d'un instrument N'EST PAS UNE COURSE DE VITESSE !!!! Je le préférais dans ses enregistrements plus anciens . Il ne devrait pas courir comme il le fait , il n'a plus rien à prouver . Soigner son jeu , ses phrasés originaux et mélodiques comme il sait les jouer......comme ça , il est inégalable . Même Benny Goodman n'a pas joué aussi bien avec autant de variété dans ses interprétations !!!! Anat ne m'a pas semblé à la hauteur....elle a essayé de jouer un jeu sensible et personnel , mais il me semble qu'elle a raté !!!

Anat's volume = pickup! She's great!

+SheepPeep I can relate. My professional life is with the clarinet, but not in jazz. If my otherwise excellent middle school band director had allowed me in the jazz bands things might have been different. He said, "play sax" - I gave it a try and it was easy enough at that level but something that felt right for me. I should have found a good teacher who was a jazz player, but I ended up as a band director and classical player/teacher. Good enough, I have no complaints, but there is still that what if....

I think he issue is that the "jazz band " in school is really Stage Band and it has a set instrumentation. Clarinet and flute don't show till the saxs get asked to pull out their doubles...

They don’t like giving away all the solos

it may be simply that the arrangements available to the director didn't include clarinet parts

@@tombrown9424 can't the arrangements be easily adapted for Clarinet? I love a swinging Clarinet of any genre. It's one of the reasons I'm so drawn to Western Swing (Bob Wills is still The King)

Yeah, and he killed it with that crazy German system clarinet. Not many clarinetist even dare that in this style of music! Hats off!

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Greg D Its an albert system. Sydney Bechet and all the old greats played this systen until the French boehm system was introduced in the early 20th century

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