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“There are a number of exceptional clarinetists working in the traditional idioms right now, but none of them cut Joe Licari.” --Robert Levin Joe Licari (b. January 10, 1934, Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz clarinetist. Known as an especially “hot” player with an exuberant and always emotive attack, Licari is considered, by critics and peers alike, to be in the front rank of contemporary “classic” jazz musicians. He is also among the most immediately recognizable. The renowned Bob Wilber, with whom Licari studied for nearly a year, said of him: “You hear the influence of Benny Goodman in his playing…also the Chicago players Frank Teschemacher and Pee Wee Russell, plus the New Orleans clarinetists Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and Jimmie Noone

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Swing It, Brother, Swing!!

By Joe Licari

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sugar; Please, Waitin' for Katie; Delta Bound; There's a Cabin in the Pines; Drop Me Off in Harlem; Sweet and Slow; Evenin'; Deep Night; You Were Only Passing Time with Me; Pee Wee's Blues; That Rhythm Man; Baby; A Melody from the Sky; Did I Remember?; Si Tu Vois Ma Mere.

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Robert Levin: The War is Over - A Conversation About Jazz

by AAJ Staff
August 21, 2010

[Editor's Note: Interview conducted by Eleanor Brietel, New York Editor of The Drill Press. Most of this interview, originally published on the Buzzle website, was conducted via email.] Eleanor Brietel: You've published fiction and you also write essays on a variety of subjects. I want, however, to confine this discussion to your ...

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