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Eddie Daniels |
view all recordings Grammy Award winner Eddie Daniels is a masterful clarinetist and saxophone player who has expanded the reach of the clarinet well beyond its traditional position in jazz.
After graduating from Juilliard in 1966, Eddie was recruited by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis to join their new band, and he played in the band until 1972. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he played and recorded with many of the leading musicians in New York, including Hank Jones, Roland Hanna, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Richard Davis, Bucky Pizzarelli and Airto Moreira.
In 1984, he premiered Jorge Calandrelli's Concerto for Jazz Clarinet and Orchestra, subsequently recording it, along with other pieces for clarinet and orchestra, on his album Breakthrough. In the late 1980s, he was also featured in the Mercer Ellington-led orchestra which produced the highly regarded album Digital Duke.
Recording highlights in the 1990s included a number of highly successful albums for GRP and jazz/classical crossover projects, such as a jazz version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
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Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels
(From BillBoard review of latest IPO release)
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway have been both revered and sublimated by critics and listeners during their long and sometimes obscured careers. Make no mistake, though -- they are great musicians who somehow do not get the credit they deserve as true jazz masters. When Daniels has played more commercially oriented music, he's branded a sellout, while Kellaway's profile is so low-key, he's practically off the radar except when releasing a recording. Fact is, Daniels is as limber, facile, tuneful, and literate as any clarinet player on the contemporary scene, while Kellaway's understated brilliance is balanced by a sense of wonder and empowerment tempered by a veteran's common sense and deep wisdom. Both have made important strides in recent years to change minds and hearts with several very fine efforts in the modern mainstream idiom, but these duets recorded live at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles have to be a high watermark for them, individually and together... This is a wondrous duet date featuring extraordinary musicians taking chances and thankfully succeeding on all levels, not the least of which are in the enviable elements of pace, placement, and depth.
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