Jonathan Stout: Pre-Bebop Jazz Guitarist (and JGO member)

[AllanAllen]

[ruger9]

Loved that! You don't see clarinet enough in the 3- and 4-piece combos. What a lovely instrument, I actually love it more than sax for SWING.

[jameslovestal]

Loved that! You don't see clarinet enough in the 3- and 4-piece combos. What a lovely instrument, I actually love it more than sax for SWING.

I agree. Nice to see a clarinet in a swing setting, but not an only Django music type setting.

[Oscar67]

Loved that! You don't see clarinet enough in the 3- and 4-piece combos. What a lovely instrument, I actually love it more than sax for SWING.

Check out Martin Taylor’s album Two For The Road with Alan Barnes.

[Cunamara]

I like the clarinet for bebop and more modern styles, too. Beautiful instrument that too often gets unfairly relegated to "period" music such as swing, early Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman stuff. I get that the sax fingering is easier, but I just like the sound of the clarinet better (especially than tenor sax, my least favorite instrument in jazz).

[sgosnell]

Howard Alden has recorded with Anat Cohen on clarinet. Videos on YouTube. Good stuff. He has also recorded with Ken Peplowski, also good stuff. The guitar and clarinet go well together, starting in about 1939 and continuing til now.

[jameslovestal]

I saw them a few times when they were on this tour.