VH1 Save the Music

[acgsilver]

What is the title of the clarinet solo that is played in the VH1 Save The Music.Com" tv commercial? It's so haunting, but I can't place it.

 

[tfn1002]

They play the song on the Starbucks station all the time (XM). It is a pretty famous jazz piece, and is written for a full jazz ensemble. It goes a lot faster. I am going to ask one of my friends who does a lot of jazz, because I am a mostly classical musician and therefore pretty useless .

 

[tfn1002]

Okay, I have two composers...Artie Shaw and Acker Bilk. Supposedly it is one of these guys.

 

[thx99]

An absolute guess, not having seen the commercial:

"Moonglow" (perf. by Benny Goodman)

On numerous Goodman CDs (track 18 on this CD, for instance) and the soundtrack to the film THE FUNERAL.

 

[thx99]

Another absolute guess, going off of tfn1002's lead with Acker Bilk:

"Stranger on the Shore" (Acker Bilk)

Track 1 on The Best of Acker Bilk CD.
Also featured in the film THE MAJESTIC and on the soundtrack (track 4).

 

[tfn1002]

The song is Blue Monk. It is a Thelonious Monk song, but the versions I have heard by them is fairly different, but still the same scale. That took long enough...