Arnold Jay Smith Jazz Vent

only in New York!  in the space of three days three major clarinetists were feted: Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Eddie Daniels.  Jack Kleinsinger’s Highllights In Jazz, celebrating year 40, presented the Peter and Will Anderson Orchestra in a program of the music of Shaw and Goodman at Tribeca Pac.  Earlier in the week in Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola in the Jazz at Lincoln Center complex the Eddie Daniels/Roger Kellaway Duo held forth for four sold-out sets.

PART I: EDDIE DANIELS/ROGER KELLAWAY 

trombonist, tubaist, arranger, composer, educator EARL McINTYRE is above all a family man.  although we know each other longer than do his children, i am proud to be family; my wife, vocalist, percussionist Fran McIntyre, is Earl’s cousin.  Earl teaches at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in Park Slope, Brooklyn.  it was there that he premiered his initial CD foray as leader.

the CD, entitled BRASS CARNIVAL & TRIBUTE!, features a brass band consisting of  tubas, trombones, trumpets, french horns and rhythm, also separates a small ensemble, TRIBUTE!, which plays original material by McIntyre in dedication to his multifarious musical and extended families.  McIntyre’s father, mother, uncles and aunts, Salvation Army Band Veterans all, played a variety of brass.  his wife, vocalist, educator Renée Manning, demonstrates her own brand of brassiness, the blues.