Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harker, Brian

Titel

Louis Armstrong and the Clarinet

Ist Teil von

• American music (Champaign, Ill.), 2003-06, Vol.21 (2), p.137-158

Ort / Verlag

Champaign: Society for American Music and the University of Illinois Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Harker discusses cornetist Louis Armstrong's fascination with the clarinet and how he had become captivated with the playing style of the instrument. His experimentation with clarinet style blurred the boundaries between the traditional roles of clarinet and cornet, and in turn between the musical functions of obbligato and melody, solo and lead. His influence of the clarinet is audible in its earliest recordings made with King Oliver in 1923 and Fletcher Henderson in 1924 and 1925.