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Mort Weiss: A Giant Step Out and Back

Read "Mort Weiss: A Giant Step Out and Back" reviewed by Sammy Stein


A while back, flamboyant and forthright clarinetist Mort Weiss sent an email saying he was going to make a free form album. Frankly, it was hard to believe as no-one had been more against free form jazz than Weiss. For around two years he had been taking free form apart, decrying many players and the genre, ...

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I'll Be Seeing You

Label: SMS Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: Alone Together; I’ll Be Seeing You; Our Delight; Spring is Here/A Time for Love; When Your Lover’s gone; Blues for Alice; You Do Something for Me; Gots The Horn in My Mouth Blues; the Touch of Your Lips; Confirmation; Here’s That Rainy Day; My Funny Valentine; Bernies Tune; Azule Serpe; Pennies From Heaven.

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Article: Album Review

Mort Weiss: I'll Be Seeing You

Read "I'll Be Seeing You" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Clarinetist Mort Weiss is a character. That much is readily evident by reading his All About Jazz column, The Mort Report. He is opinionated and passionate, both driving forces that easily season his playing in such a way that when Weiss plays, he's readily recognizable. Since returning to recording in 2001 after nearly 30 years away, ...

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Mort Weiss Meets Bill Cunliffe

Label: SMS Jazz
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Theme; Who Can I Turn To; Indian Summer; The Gentle Rain; What is this Thing Called Love; Readings of Kerouac 1; My Ship; If I Should Lose You; The Sheik of Araby; Dewey Square; Awaken; For Heavens Sake; Who Cares.

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Mort Weiss: Mort Weiss Meets Bill Cunliffe

Read "Mort Weiss Meets Bill Cunliffe" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


If it is a Mort Weiss recording, bebop cannot be very far away. Competent bop clarinetists are as scarce as hen's teeth, the most critically accepted being Tony Scott, Buddy Defranco and Weiss. Weiss' most recent recordings, Mort Weiss Meets Sam Most (SMS Jazz, 2006) and B3 and Me (SMS Jazz, 2006), reflect his solid bop ...

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Raising the Bar: The Definitive Mort Weiss

Label: SMS Jazz
Released: 2010
Track listing: My Shining Hour; Smile; Tea For Two; Alfie; Sketches; Dear Old Stockholm; Everything Happens To Me; Without A Song; Blues For Håkan; Lunch In Navasota; Just Friends; What's New?; Love Is a Many Splendored Thing; As Time Goes By; It Could Happen To You; It Might As Well Be Spring; My Way

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Mort Weiss: Raising the Bar: The Definitive Mort Weiss

Read "Raising the Bar: The Definitive Mort Weiss" reviewed by Samuel Chell


In late 2006, clarinetist Mort Weiss told his unusual story to R. J. Deluke in an exclusive interview for All About Jazz, appropriated titled “Mort Weiss: Sets Sail with Clarinet." His narrative is the timeless, archetypal journey of the hero's circular route to hell and back--much like that of Homer's legendary mariner, Ulysses, except that in ...

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All Too Soon - A Jazz Duet For Clarinet and Seven String Guitar

Label: SMS Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Tracks: Scrapple From the Apple; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Blue Monk; Be My Love; Django; Dearly Beloved; O Grande Amor; Afternoon In Paris; Emily; Like Someone In Love; If You Could See Me Now; No More Blues

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Article: Extended Analysis

Mort Weiss: All Too Soon - A Jazz Duet For Clarinet and Seven String Guitar

Read "Mort Weiss: All Too Soon - A Jazz Duet For Clarinet and Seven String Guitar" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Mort Weiss All Too Soon: A Jazz Duet for Clarinet and Seven String Guitar SMS Jazz 2008 Not the least of this album's attractions is the title. To those few listeners familiar with the tune, “All Too Soon" might summon up one of Duke Ellington's more obscure compositions, were it ...

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The B3 and Me

Label: SMS Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Ornithology; I Thought About You; Falling in Love with Love; Love Letters; Billy's [Billie's] Bounce; Autumn Leaves; Yesterdays; You Stepped out of a Dream; Fools Rush In


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