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John Clark's 'odd Couple Quintet' at Jazz Tuesdays in the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium at

Courtesy of John Clark | Posted on January 28, 2014

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Tue, February 11, 2014
8:00 pm

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John Clark (French Horn) and Michael Rabinowitz (Bassoon), leaders of "The Odd Couple Quintet, are arguably the leading jazz players of these difficult instruments, and the group creates a fresh interpretation in today's language of the beautiful music of Mozart. John says "Although I was trained in classical music, I've always had an innate urge to improvise. I was fortunate to have teachers and mentors (particularly Gunther Schuller) who didn't discourage me from venturing into the jazz world with my horn. Early on, I had the idea to combine some traditional horn pieces with a jazz setting, but didn't clearly see a way to realize it...

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