By All About Jazz News on June 17, 2012
All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Scott’s birthday today!
Tony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop. With Buddy DeFranco, Mr. Scott was considered one of the leading bebop clarinetists. (The two men were often described as the only major clarinetists to take on bebop, a style thought to be incompatible with the instrumenta€(TM)s soft, sweet sound.) Mr. Scott… Read more…
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