Concerto For Clarinet (b Flat Clarinet and Piano) Artie Shaw (Paperback)

~ Artie Shaw (Author)

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One of our most requested pieces for contest performances. Solo section separately bound from piano accompaniment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: Music Sales America (December 31, 1942)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825623057
• ISBN-13: 978-0825623059
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #213,296 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars moderately disappointing, October 31, 2002

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"The Grove Dictionary of Jazz" says this piece, which is not, in fact, a concerto, rather a big band arrangement (with strings) featuring clarinet, its title inspired possibly by Ellington's "Concerto for Cootie", shows, more than any other, the range of Artie Shaw's clarinet style, which is not to say it is his best recording. It is featured toward the end of the movie "Second Chorus", starring Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, and Artie Shaw (playing himself). It is available on certain Artie Shaw compilation discs.

This "book", however, is not, in fact, a score, but an abridged clarinet solo with simplified piano accompaniment and "orchestral" cues. The trumpet and piano solos are missing, but, so far as I can tell, the clarinet transcription (in concert key in the piano part, transposed in the clarinet part) is accurate. The pages are flimsy, and there is no cardboard cover, just a title sheet of the same flimsy paper. My copy arrived crimped at the corner.