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Kenny is NYC royalty! Thanks for a great interview, Ed!

I'm finding this a terrific interview. Thanx.

Amazing really over the top Uber talented

I just wanna know how they built the train

Thanks for another great interview. Hello Boyga!

Awesome. Thank you

Fantastic video. There is so much to learn from you both about woodwinds in particular and the great music professionals. God bless you both. He has certainly given you great gifts. Bill. Uk 🎷🎷🎷

Great to learn more about your history, Kenny! Excellent interview!

A very interesting interview. Being a West Coaster, I was not aware of Mr. Berger’s output. It was great to learn here about his amazing, multifaceted career. Thanks!

Another home run interview. Thanks gents!

What a nice interview! Excellent, thanks for sharing 🥰

So good to hear you Kenny, great interview . You are a fine wine.

Great interview. Thanks for posting. Always excited when I see a new interview.

Charles McPherson is always so interesting to listen to. Lots of gems

When I first heard "Silver Lining" by Chuck Loeb I thought "wow... who is this sax player?".... turned out it was David Mann. I didn't know him back then, but since then, I'm always on the lookout for music where he plays. Great solo !

Fantastic video need to see this several times Much to learn. I have of course got Mr Marcellus’s great Mozart concerto recording. God bless you. Bill. Uk 🎶🇺🇸🇬🇧

Appreciated this interesting vide

Thank you, Mr. Joffe! You present great musicians on your channel and that’s wonderful! Could I contact you by email?

FANTASTIC THANK YOU ! My family too are classical musicians, Mancini was a great friend of my Father, Studio musicians in New York and Los Angeles in the 1940s. I began as a musician age 5, then ballerina 41 years. NYCB etc very much the same, musician to dancer My Grandfather was the first from Berlin, alot of jazz in our home

Thanks to Gary Foster for passing on his wealth of knowledge to myself and so many students of woodwinds and improvisation. Gary could do it all and was willing to share it all. Respect and thanks my friend, X12.

What a great interview, how inspiring!!

😂❤🎉 Awesome explanation 👏🏾 👌🏾 😎 Thanks

Fantastic documentary. As a fellow clarinetist, you know how little quality viewing is out there. So I truly thank you for putting this together.

Incredible interview, so much I personally appreciate and understand

Awesome interview! Ed does a fabulous job summarizing/focusing Dan's discussion. This really clarifies the gold nuggets in the discussion.

Thank You for such a wonderful interview. John Yeh is s treasure! Good to hear a plug for my friend Matthew Bordoshuk, a fabulous woodwind technician, on overhauling the CSO’s Contrabass Clarinet.

OH YESSSSS. Wonderful warm up run on alto!

Jerry was the featured Gust artist at Jazz Vermont, I attended 15 years so got to know Jerry some. The first think I would ask him was what sax and MP are you playing this year? He played a old Selmer Cigar cutter one year, I like that he liked different horns and MP’s. But it didn’t matter what he played he’s a Monster and a Prince.

I thought Marcellus’ clarinets had a standard Buffet thumb rest, not an adjustable one.

Wonderful discussion of the music business and woodwind doubling Dan. You are the best! Good times playing with you at NTSU back in 1976 and rooming together on the U.S.S.R. Tour. Roger

Great

Wonderful John Bruce Yeh!. I always remember his great solos in the Chicago Symphony when they came to Italy !

Great interview- bit disturbing noice outside the studio. All those sirens, it gets to you somehow

What chops. Ken is fantastic.

Great interview, the stories, practice techniques, tips on teaching others, and the discussion on the emotional aspect was all very informative 👍 thank you

The Hubert Laws recording that Steve Wilson referenced is “Wild Flower” on the album of the same name. I took Steve W’s advice, learned that music by ear and repetitions. As SW said, it makes for a great play along piece to try to match Hubert’s amazing sound and nuances.

A amazing.inspiring musician. Thank You Both.

Can we get a link to the Medline bag?

I love this video. Thank you.

I went to Interlochen with Bob's son, Paul, and we were both in concert band together. I remember one day my freshman year, I got put on bari sax on a particularly challenging piece, and there were a couple of sections I hadn't gotten together quite right which the conductor was isolating along with the bassoons. Much to my own terror, it was parents weekend and when I looked behind me I saw Bob sitting maybe 20 ft behind me watching me mess up this line over and over again! I saw him a few times over my years at Interlochen as he would come and visit and do concerts and he was always such a humble and knowledgeable personality.

I heard Albert Tipton in concert in the 90's at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. I never heard a sound like that. So full and dark. Over the years I attributed it to the platinum flute. However, now hearing about the Bernoulli effect, I believe the amazing acoustics of that hall contributed immensely to a sound I will never forget. Bravo.

Very nice

Thank you so much for this great video. Jon is a fantastic clarinet player who I first heard when he was I think thirteen playing Webber’s Concertino at the International Clarinet Competition at Denver. He won the competition with the judge being the great Karl Leister! I have followed Jon’s career with interest and admire his classic sound and attention to detail. I like the way he plays tribute to his former teacher David Weber! Jon is a very modest gentleman dedicated to producing the best performances he can make. God bless you both. Bill. UK

Watching this for the third time now. What a great interview and presentation! Fantastic insights from these uber experienced saxophonists. The performance solis are an added bonus! Thanks, Ed!

This video is a great service to us all. I was his student at Northwestern in 1975-76, and one day he was teaching me the Beethoven "Pastoral" and he demonstrated the triplet solo at the end of the first movement. He had a photo of Pablo Casals inscribed "to Robert Marcellus, Ideal clarinetist," and that was his Beethoven 6 up close--ideal. He was an unusually articulate man of great self-possession and of course at Northwestern we all quite worshiped him, so this memoir by you gives a great deal of perspective. My memory may be faulty, but I believe he played Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Stravinsky, who coached him on it. If you know anything about the details of this encounter, could you post it?

I'd say Eddie is the Gallway of the clarinet & much more! 😂❤

Very gracious. Thank you so much!

I am a classical clarinet player who does a little improvisation I was good far me to watch this video to hear what Mr Daniels says about "being free"

I am happy to hear Jerry mention Joe Viola. I had him for a year. He ripped me apart. I was not expecting it at the time. It was great. So helpful. I feel blessed to have had the time with him before he retired.

Ed another wonderful interview. When you asked Jon about tone, I was reminded of a lesson with Mr. Allard. We were working week after week on my embrochure, breath support and phrasing. I was a freshman at JCSC then and so many of my classmates had more technique than I (there were 4 of us who studied with Mr. Allard). I asked him could he give me something to get my fingers moving. He said to me, "Vinny if you don't sound good no one will wait around to hear your fingers move". Our son is a horn player in the Cape Cod Symphony where we heard Jon play the Debussy Rhapsody. It was gorgeous. Speaking of LPs, during my masters, I was working on the Nielson cto. and Drucker's recording had been released. The way he played the cadenza completely defeated me and when I mentioned this to Mr. Allard (I began with him when I was 15 and stopped when I was 26, so I never called him Joe) he gave me his vinyl recording of Carhuzac who played the concerto very differently and allowed me to see it was doable.