Eddie Daniels / Roger Kellaway

Eddie Daniels / Roger Kellaway: Live At The Library Of Congress

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 28, 2012

Perhaps no wind instrument can be as expressive as the human voice besides the trombone and clarinet. The litmus test, so to speak, might be to cast either instrument in a silent movie and then to watch the film as the instruments imitate the lives whose stories they tell. Of course the instruments must be played exceptionally well--perhaps trombonist Roswell Rudd and clarinetist Barney Bigard, in days gone by or, if the film were being made today, clarinetist Don Byron ...