McKinley: Concerto for Clarinet and Jazz Orchestra (1990)

I. Larghetto e magico II. Scherzando (10:31) Dedicated to clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and premiered by the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra with Ken Schaphorst conducting on 15 Dec 1990, Tsai Performance Center, Boston University, Boston, MA. Richard Stoltzman, soloist. The recording heard here is the world-premiere performance. At the moment we do not have a copy of the manuscript but when a score of the manuscript is scanned from the library, we will produce a complete score-video. PROGRAM NOTE: “Richard Stoltzman stands in the lineage of our great American clarinetists: Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buddy DeFranco, Jimmy Giuffre, Woody Herman, Eddie Daniels; and since I have had the great fortune to have performed in various settings—both jazz and classical music—with Benny Goodman, Jimmy Giuffre, Eddie Daniels and Richard Stoltzman, I feel particularly close to and proud of this great tradition. It is from this tradition that I draw my inspiration, in synthesis with the great classical tradition that l