#19 - Besame Mucho - Edmond Hall - 1944 I hate it when a recording is so stiff you can hear how many music stands are in the studio. None ...

Few windplayers had as immediately identifiable a sound as Edmond Hall. Gritty, warm, earthy, by turns biting and tender, he was a ste...

Like 1938, the year of Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall triumph and Artie Shaw's ascendancy to national prominence, the year 1954 ...

Although most of them are out of print, jazz clarinetist are startlingly well represented by highly informative autobiographies--books that ...

Many readers of The Jazz Clarinet   will probably receive their issue of DownBeat this week, as I did a couple of days ago. It's loaded ...

5. Edmond Hall * Profoundly Blue In a rare case of mutual admiration among jazz clarinetists, Benny Goodman once referred to Edmond Hall a...

This compilation , released on the Jazz Legends label in 2004, and apparently compiled by Scott Yanow who also contributes excellent liner n...