Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto

[misukus1]

Have somone from this Version a play along Version on Cd....

I need it urgentliy..thanks

ksklarinette@gmx.de

[yaelsprikut]

I think that the outstretched notes were a bit too much. The piece is supposed to be playful and have a continuing sound/rhythm, and this makes it sound like a cat is being dragged by its tail. No offence.

[garrettmillerdrums]

@yaelsprikut Yea, we wouldn't want anyone to play anything differently or interpret anything in any other way than the original......

[misukus1]

who can send me the clarinet notes...???

Very nice....Thanks a lot..

ksklarinette@gmx.de

Greetings K.

[cloversocks]

This makes me want to start dancing! Great job!!

[DarthHamsy]

Whoa, this is amazing. I've just ordered the music to this, here's hoping I can get it to as high a standard as this :D

[allexpwns123456]

Hey can you send me the clarinet Notes?

on email ?

my email is Allexpwns@yahoo.com Thx"!

[smbtuckma]

This is a very impressive performance. Wonderful job :)

[FloristheKing]

Its Don't mean a Thing because he doesn't have a Swing, Sorry man, May i give some tips, Away with the Sheets play it as if its easy, and find a balance with the intruments i mean its the Artie shaw CLARINET concerto so play a bit louder so we can hear you, and listen more jazz not only artie shaw and benny good man, try Fletcher Henderson, listen to it very carefull and do not only play swing, think swing, short long short long, ta-daa wa-waa da-daa etc, good luck

[FatManDoubleZero]

Is this guy for REAL ????? He has the appearance of Groucho Marx (clown like). You are FLAT and must bt tone deaf!!!!!!!! Take up basket weaving cause you STINK at B flat clarinet!!!!!

[marliegirlie]

@FatManDoubleZero you're an asshole. he sounds great and you probably can't do better.

[willwoodhouse]

My friend from school has Artie Shaw's very own Clarinet and recently we took it to New York with the schools Big Band jazz group where we played this :)

[sailingsoon1]

BRAVO!!!!....BRAVISIMO!!!!

[BlissfulPsychosis]

Seriously. What? Anyone who says that classically trained clarinetists don't make good jazz players needs to tell that to Benny Goodman.

[summer27a]

You did a great job! You have a really nice tone too.

[mikenz06]

This boys got no soul

[musicends]

Classical musicians can make the transition, but it really takes a lifetime to master swing and rubato within the beat. Swinging is a style you can pick up quite easily, but to play freely and actually reclaim the beat is a skill only a handful of clarinetists (in this case) can do.

[youralizard]

Great video! im playig this peice too and i got the high C at the end :)

[mozartiano123]

I hate drums.. sorry..

but clarinet is so magnific

[SlimSymes]

This does not swing all the notes are right but its the in and out of the notes that need to fly make the heart sigh for of all the beauties Atie Shaw made cry.

Ofay

[SlimSymes]

The page turner for the piano needs to be a glam babe looking like Betty Grable,Lana Turner or Lena Horne hmm Ava Gardner Helen Forest Judy Garland !

[aldyraldy]

where can i find music for piano clarinet and drums

[clarygirrrl9]

The expression, I believe, is "swings like a gate." Nice job cute clary guy! Played with verve. And nice job, drummer! I agree the piano player could have swung it more, but hey, unless you can do better don't criticize. It will take me a year to learn this piece.

[Omnicron4735]

Technique: 8.6/10

Soul: 1/10

I think we used to say "swings like a brick" when I was in music school to describle this kind of preformance.

I think you should try the Goodman... it's more in "harmony" with your skill set.

[cinze80]

damn, what a very bad piano-player....

[theman9126]

that was soooo good....great job!!!

[Juli217]

@CesarBM2:

everything is written down...

nothing is improvised...

it's harder to learn this tune than to improvise it...

actually "just" a blues...

[wolfsong09]

the only part written down was the gliss to C at the end, everything else was played as notated.

[michaelrusman]

enjoyed your performance

[defelice33]

This is a joke, right?

[Battlefield2Pilot]

Classically trained musicians should not try to enter the realm of jazz. A mistake made by this man.

[wolfsong09]

I completely disagree with you, classically trained musicians make the transition all the time without an issue. Don't make assumptions based on one video you watched.

[hitshitwithsticks]

@Battlefield2Pilot if you are a musician and think that any musician however trained shouldn't attempt to do as much as possible musically then you sir are a fool. not to be insulting, just saying.

[dwyn1]

drummer + fancy suit

lol

[k4506240]

great!!

[CesarBM2]

You did alot of improvising in this peace even though it wasn't written on, it just shows what an incredible jazz clarinetist you are, Inceradible Performane well done

[livingdeadgrrl11235]

I've decided to pick up swing clarinet after years and years of playing classical, so I picked up a bunch of music, this piece being one.

You did fabulously! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing such a performance so that others could read it. I think you did a great job! For all the people who have been blasting you (!), just keep playing. Half of them couldn't pull this off at all.

Do you still play this piece?

Thanks again!

[Abriggs500]

Superb performance! I think your way of playing this piece is different yet still amazingly wonderful to listen to. Well done.

[kantalope]

hey, nice job man.

how old are you?

I just uploaded a video of me playing this piece at a concert.

[skitrees]

Great job - like others have said, too much drum and a more "swinging" accompaniement set would have made it. Wonderful to go after this though - and you did extremely well! Kudos to you and those who would encourage you to play it - keep on keepin' on!!

Just realizing that a lot of this music originated on the fly from the mind of a 28 year old man is remarkable - cheers to the great Artie Shaw who not only played the music, but created it from nothingness in mere fractions of a second!

[trezpazz]

bloody brilliant....Trez

[Brendinha2509]

How Old are Him???

[Abriggs500]

GERSHWIN YA!

[Tangodown007]

ARTIE SHAW as written in the title...

[rmothersbaugh]

Oh my gosh will you marry me? (just kidding I have a boyfriend who I love!) I gave up tenor sax when I wen't to college for horses and I was in honors jazz and I miss it so much and I played clarinet before I picked up saxaphone when I was 9. And props to you. I feel like a loser now! I could listen to this all day.

[PuffsPlusWithLotion]

i play clarinet and just can't figure how jazz players let those notes so loose? like it's screaming but not exactly squeaking

[Tech502]

it's called pitch bending... it's easy to learn honestly, just try moving your tongue when you play.

[PuffsPlusWithLotion]

thank you, very much

[trev908]

you don't move ur tongue. u use the back of your throat. bend your toungue does nothing for your embrouche...

[Tech502]

There is no right or wrong way to do it... it's something that isn't really taught, but you have to figure it out by yourself. I find it harder to use the back of my throat so it's easier to use my tongue.

[emoClarinetist]

I use my lower jaw.

[tallrob11]

i love your name...lol

[tjc197]

He needs a bass player.

[albertiddqd]

and de final C??? :S

[naruto10156]

Hahaha i love the gershin ending...

But you coulda play that high C for sure!

You got all the other notes spot on! :D

[hanynka73]

it  s perfect!!!

[wolfyvamp]

really got to get that swing in there...a liitle more UMPH!

great skills though!

[justacondom]

You've got the skills, but you've got no swings

[maggiesfarm92]

i thought it was good =D

[TupacKim]

Wow Thats so nice ~ So gr8

Gooood job way to go!

[PeaceXLoveXJonas9994]

Im in middle school band I wish I could hit all those high notes! LOL! Good job!

[Hinatarox1013]

Some high schoolers can't even play that high. x'DDD At least, with that good of a sound.

[numba1bigcid]

and what the hell was that like gershin flashback at the end lol...i mean it wasn't bad, very unique, but if you could hit all those other notes, you could have went another half step or two for that crazy controlled squeak at the end. still, good job.

[numba1bigcid]

too much drum set.

takes from that unique sound of yours.

[TravianChick]

ha ha. there's too much drum if there's any drum at all.

[roninshard]

The AS is a challenging piece. You did a great job. Don't let these bozos discourage you from stretching out and pushing your limits. I applaud you, and I applaud your teacher for encouraging you to take on such an ambitious project. With all due respect, I think you would have sounded better and played better with better accompaniment.Congrats on a fine performance.

[dickdona]

Check out this version also, Artie Shaw Concert for clarinet Musical, over on the right with the red background curtain, Military Band of the Finance Department, soloist Giulio Cuseri, director M° Leonardo Laserra Ingrosso

[klemasss]

yea i think too....you're playing to softly like classic player you should play like more swingly and there is a lot o glisses maybe there are to much of them believe me im playing in dixieland for 4years. :)

[micalangel]

i think you can play better...

[ThePretzelHead]

Might want to get those pants hemmed. A bit long there...it really destroys your look.

[piazzolan]

No sé que se ha creido este señor, pero los bluesman tienen blues en el corazón, no en la cabeza. El blues no son cromatismos, glissandos y algo de emisión lenta, y mucho menos interpretar, como es el mundo clásico. El jazz y estas músicas es crear, aunque se reconozcan los méritos de los grandes, sólo deberemos tenerlos como lo que son, horizontes; señores, acérquense a sí mismos, no a Artie Shaw.

[cunibertg]

Por favor, tampoco hace falta sentirse ofendido por su interpretación. Puedes tomarla como otra forma de ver la obra. Estoy contigo, el jazz no es intelectualismo, ni partituras, ni ese sonido tan clasico que le saca al clarinete, pero el chaval no lo hace mal, aunque la toque como si de una sonata se tratase.

[bubbagump9942]

not enough of a main beat, and you go a bit high

[sutphoe]

nice sliding but I think you may have used it a bit too much

[simpson0107]

This guy's swing is a bit square

[dodddd29383]

but I am disappointed that he couldn't finish of the last part by the original version.

[HIkeda126]

Eh well, it's difficult nailing a note that high. I think his interpretation was better off than seeing him squeak the note out.

[dodddd29383]

I agree. at least he finished the piece off in a very clean manner, instead of having a squeak.

[dodddd29383]

oh, nd about people who keep mentioning "rhapsody in blue", please get your senses, that's just a glissando/.

[dodddd29383]

nice jazz sound, but not much swing rythm. please give me some more swing and it'll be very excellent.

[juliashenkar]

i understand why the Rhapsody in Blue thing was done at the end... the piece goes up super high there.

Well done.

[Zippolata]

BIG OUCH..........................­.........Sorry

[Zachnicol264]

It's not a "Rhapsody in blue" ending, it's simply a glissando, it's used in many other pieces.

[sistalinda]

Beautifully done.

Makes the clarinet sound so fresh.

[marredsun]

AHHHH!!! What's with the rhapsody in Blue ending???? I was going to yell at all the other nay-sayers until that. haha. It sounds like you need some better accompaniment. Not a bad job on the rest of the piece though. Too many distasteful scoops.

[Hitman7739]

in a word, awful - are you even a musician?? you got the notes in the right places thats the only good thing i can say about it

[HIkeda126]

Present a vid with you playing this piece then >_>

[etchesastar]

I'm not going to say "This sucks!" because he's fairly good. He can play the notes, it just sounds like it needs a bit more work.

[historyofmusicpart1]

To have a world full of critics is one thing, but if a performance is just bad, why should we then lie to ourselves and the rest by saying, oh yes nice performance? Didn't like this at all, no swing feel, no jazz input, no style, no gliss or top c, and it hasn't got the right attitude. In a word: terrible

[razorbkb]

Are you a backseat driver? Or are you one of those people who pretends to be a pundit yet does absolutely nothing themselves, and yet is a legend in their own mind?

I'm sure this relates to you 'Historyofmusic1'. The performance is not terrible that's the word for your snobby attitude. Let's see what you can do with a camera, clarinet and a score of the clarinet concerto...I (like many others) are dying to hear.

[HIkeda126]

Ah, the music world; full of critiques and put downs...

I must say, great attempt at it. Reiterating what a few people said, listen to the original recording and see what you can do with it if you happen to play it.

Putting Artie to shame? Ignore those idiots...I'd like to see a few of these people play better than what you produced.

Other than that, good job!

[spitzgx296]

I have nothing against artie or his performance. He did great. He was able to give a perfomance of great level and was good at playing it. The only thing is he didnt have the jazz feel. He needs to work on his swing and jazz style. To me it just sounded as square perfomance. but hey, with a little work and twist, he can probably do great things. Keep working hard man.

[eddydavik]

Going off of other folks' comments... go gotta let your playing sing a little here. You have no vibrato and very little (if any) swing in your performance. Lossing up a bit, get rid of the R-in-B tag at the end, and play some jazz!

Other than that, nice performance

[Georgshaw]

Master Of disaster, There's no sun on you so why are you Blow so much

[jazzyclari]

There were some nice things in there that i liked, different to the original, but it seems that the soloist is concentrating on the notes and technique sometimes, more than the melodic sense of the music.

Overall, i enjoyed it and it is done very well for a young clarinettist.

Thank you for posting this!!! :)

[daGcode91]

you gotta let it swing

[diluted21]

sorry to any die hard shaw fans, but his music is boring and predictable, in my opinion.

[jazzmusician50]

That was terrible! Sack the pianist!

[jewls9223]

Where is the "Shaw" vibrato?

[michavillanueva]

SOUNDS HORRIBLE ! sorry- but listen to the original and understand which power Artie Shaaw has had! it has nothing to do with an academic- classical interpretated try of a young guy who doesn´t have the sex appeal as artie had..good tecnic does not make the music..artie had sturdust and a own, mature voice!!

[jackblume]

Tonight I saw this performed by 18 year old Mark Simpson at the BBC Last Night Of The Proms in Hyde Park... He is a virtuoso, it was truely amazing. If videos of him get uploaded, watch them, he is fantastic... As howdonoff would put it, he is in for fame and fortune.... but i guess he's already got plenty of fame.

[rochastes]

You should at least get down the last note before recording, rather than replacing or covering it with rhapsody in blue.

[howdonoff]

I agree, if it can not be played properly, why bother. The master of the clarinet is Artie Shaw. If you can do better, you are in for fame and fortune. If you can't don't even try. In this case it is far from the truth of the gentleman that matters. He would turn in his geave. Brave attempt, go back to the drawing board.

[69Anzony69]

No ta mal pero parece k uses un clarinete chino de esos del 150.

[saxoclar]

My comments are not arguable. I know what I'm talking about. Take my advise and be a better player. Don't take my advise at your own risk.

[GazeAaron]

that's resally fantastic. the jazz feeling could use some work, but you're a fantastic clarinetist.

[bennygoodman03]

On its own a very enjoyable performance. Of course it's not going to be perfect like Artie Shaw because this isn't Artie Shaw. Music isn't meant to be identical every time its played.

[craper745]

not jazzy at all

u didnt have the feel in it

[Juilin18]

I would recommend not quite so much glissing in it. A little glissing, tastefully done, adds a lot of flavor to a piece. When it is slathered on, it gets hard to hear much else. Still, it is good to hear a clarinet player like you who can REALLY gliss. Most of the people I play with can't do it at all.

[coolma41]

have u heard how much artie shaw actually glisses in it? i mean i agree with u but artie shaw glisses plenty ya know

[konzertino]

Well done. this is an extremely hard piece, and you played it well - i was lloking foreward to the high 'c' for the last note though, i reckon you would've been able to do it...

[saxoclar]

Hey, nice try. I heard you play classical on here and you are a fine clarinetist. tip for the jazz. Stay far away from scooping notes. classical guys do this because they think it's jazzy. It's not. Don't do it and you'll sound much better. Listen to the record. Artie is not scooping near as much as you.

Marty

[monsieurboomboom]

Your playin' puts Artie Shaw to shame ! You cant swing for shit. If you ever wanna play the gliss, play a G5 with B4 harmonic, then gliss to C5 thus becoming G6... good luck

[multipleoranges45]

the high notes dont sound so good... i think the clarinettist was pushing himself over the limits a bit!

[mavis7897]

Heehee! Nice "rhapsody in blue" revisit at the end...cool interpretation!

[beemafreak]

Very enjoyable-but not even comparable with an Artie Shaw performance. The notes where a bit blurred at times, and the rhythm is often not quite there

[sonofgreatestgenerat]

The number sounds closer to a Benny Goodman special team (like his quartet - got vibraphonist?) than Shaw, which ain't bad. It's extemporaneous, energized and it swings. I will be looking forward to more from you.

Good work!

[fyndingnemo]

wow i hope 2 sound dat gud sumday but ive only had 1 lesson!!! =$ lol!

[krumbus]

sweeeet

[clarinetlvr]

Thanks for playing this! I feel like people are too afraid of stuff like this! =-) I played it on my senior recital with a big band and it was the most fun I've ever had playing my clarinet! I love your ideas! Thanks for posting! Where do you go to school?

[samo5y86]

this is really great and all...but u coulda played with a lil more swagger if u kno wut i mean...i guess im just being too critical n nitpickin but its only to push u to become better...great performance overall

[USRoute66]

I love it! I just wish there was a full-size orchestra to back him on the clarinet.

[fourscore1]

Man this guy is swinging! Sounds just like the Artie Shaw clip! Did he base it off that?

[jerry101988]

Quite likely. What a great jazzy sound to emulate!

[yoiel]

the clarinet sounds perfect...

[waltcuba]

very bad ensemble and jazz concept. no me gusta nada, mejoralo

[samuelmusic2003]

Excellent...

JAZZ!!!

[DTrinh09]

seemed like you started having trouble toward the end there, but hell, that was an amazing performance nonetheless. i've watched the original artie shaw clarinet concerto on youtube many times and you did a pretty good job playing it =]

[Duvelisawayoflive]

Didn't like this at all. You're a great classical player but please don't interfere with Artie Shaw. If you can't play the gliss and top C to mention two things, don't play this piece.

[TeButler]

That depends on the occasion (I agree with you if we're talking audition or sth like that).. But it's an enjoyable to work on and to listen to, so why ruin your performance with the risk of not getting the high C right if you're not sure it will come out right.

Thanks DuyTran16 for posting this video.. I'm gonna perform the piece with piano and drums in february and hadn't heard it in that setting yet :)

[Duvelisawayoflive]

I played AS in November and I'm doing it again in March. But with a complete symphonic orchestra, I hope to get it properly recorded.

I don't like DT16's interpretation of AS, not just the top C. But hey, that's what music is about.

[TeButler]

True that... Good luck with your performance and I hope to hear the recording some time..

[obeseocean]

This is the best clarinet video on youtube

congrats

[bbbbobbbb819]

very nice,Artie Shaw was a master, and what a masterous piece he compiled here.

[tml0202]

nice work, how long have you been playing?