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It does take courage to record a solo CD on bass clarinet. But Jason Stein
knows exactly what he is doing. Being a very active member of the Chicago
new music scene, his solos are not songs, per se, nor displays of bravado or
ostentation. As Art Lange writes in his liner notes, "his are, to my ear,
spontaneous etudes... Stein's solo improvisations are not abstract
exercises. They are literally about the way he plays the bass clarinet, how
his breath filters through it and is transformed into degrees of pitch,
texture, tone color, percussion, and voice..."
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