Sorry all you guys looking for links in the quotation I gave.
There was no intention to give links (I still dont know how) but the blue highlights were there in the original reference (I think Wiki or maybe some obscure Google source I will have to dig up ) and were themselves just references.
However I will now give you the rest of the Quote which I had stored on Wordpad.
Harry Carney,
Duke Ellington's
baritone saxophonist for 47 years, played bass clarinet in some of Ellington's arrangements, first recording with it on "Saddest Tale" in 1934. He was featured soloist on many Ellington recordings, including 27 titles on bass clarinet.
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The first jazz album on which the leader solely played bass clarinet was
Great Ideas of Western Mann (1957) by
Herbie Mann, better known as a flautist. However, avant-garde musician
Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) was the first major jazz soloist on the instrument, and established much of the vocabulary and technique used by later performers. He used the entire range of the instrument in his solos.
Bennie Maupin emerged in the late 1960s as a primary player of the instrument, playing on
Miles Davis's seminal record
Bitches Brew as well as several records with
Herbie Hancock's
Mwandishi group. His style resembles Dolphy's in its use of advanced harmonies.
While the bass clarinet has been used often since Dolphy, it is typically used by a
saxophonist or
clarinetist as a second or third instrument; such musicians include
David Murray,
Marcus Miller,
John Surman,
John Gilmore,
Bob Mintzer,
Roger Rosenberg,
James Carter,
Steve Buckley,
Andy Biskin,
Dai Pritchard,
Don Byron,
Julian Siegel,
Gunter Hampel,
Chris Potter,
Michel Portal and
Oran Etkin. Very few performers have used the instrument exclusively, but such performers include the Baltimore-based American musician and bandleader
Todd Marcus,
[8] Luxemburg-based viruoso bass clarinetist
Michel Pilz, Berlin-based bass clarinetist
Rudi Mahall, Chicago-based bass clarinetist
Jason Stein,
[9] Amsterdam/Detroit-based bass clarinetist
Jason AlderHYPERLINK \l "cite_note-9"[10] of the electroacoustic improvisation ensemble
Sonido 13,
[11] and French bass clarinetist Louis Sclavis with his famous disk "Clarinettes" ( "Django Reinhardt" award ) . Klezmer clarinetist
Giora Feidman is known for idiosyncratic use of the bass clarinet on some klezmer and jazz tunes.
As you can see Escher your ref to Dolphy was spot on.
Do you all think the thread is worthwhile? If so keep your own info and comments on unusual instruments flooding in, and the more controversy the better.
Cheers John (No links to be found)