Clarinet Thing: Ellington & Others
Clarinet Thing will be performing suites by members and arrangements of works by Ellington, Monk, Herbie Nichols, Carla Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, and others.
Clarinet Thing is a quartet of renowned jazz clarinetists featuring
Sheldon Brown,
Beth Custer,
Ben Goldberg, Harvey Wainapel that performs arrangements of unusual jazz works and originals on the entire family of clarinets. Clarinet and jazz enthusiasts of all ages abound at their concerts. All members have been regaled in the press including Goldberg who was named the ‘#1 Rising Star Clarinetist’ by the 2011 Downbeat Magazine’s Critic’s Poll. CT is featured in the soundtrack of William Farley's Plastic Man documentary.
Founded by
Beth Custer in 1989, Clarinet Thing has amassed a large repertoire performing tunes by Herbie Nichols, Carla Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, Eubie Blake, Abdullah Ibrahim, Alexandre Stellio, Duke Ellington, John Carter, and many others. Original compositions by band members are also performed.
“Clarinet Thing’s first CD Agony Pipes and Misery Sticks was chosen the Top 10 CDs of Bay Area Jazz Artists:
Features 16 lush and woody tracks the startlingly beautiful music is pithy and expansive like a great collection of short stories.”
—Andrew Gilbert, SF Chronicle
“Clarinet Thing is a killer quartet that plays a rich woody lend of original music, Ellingtonia, Brazilian choro…and other pieces that pop and sway with the pregnant sound of an improvising clarinet choir.”
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
Clarinet Thing at the Maybeck
Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $40-50 Sliding-Scale Admission
Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation
here.