"It's all about having fun when you're playing."
 -- Eddie Daniels
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Clarinetist Eddie Daniels was born in 1941 and raised in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brookly, New York, NY. His interest in jazz began when as a teen he listened intently to the records of Frank Sinatra -- not to the singer himself but to the backing musicians, particularly their solos.
He first took up the saxophone, having recieved his father's old alto, and he performed on alto at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival in New York regional youth band. But Eddie was also a talent on clarinet -- he received his Masters in Clarinet in 1966 from The Juilliard School.
Daniels recorded and toured with the prestigious Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra during the late 1960s and went on to make albums with Freddie Hubbard (1969), Richard Davis, Don Patterson, and duets with Bucky Pizzarelli (1973).
Eddie began focusing exclusively on clarinet on his mid-1980s solo disc Breakthrough (GRP). Clearly a renaissance musician, Daniels is regarded as a virtuoso in both jazz and classical music and is active in music education.
On-demand audio from this show:
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Listen to Eddie talk about listening to the solos on early Frank Sinatra records
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Listen to Eddie describe his personal connection to the Thad Jones standard "A Child is Born"
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Listen to Eddie respond to an audience member's question about soloing
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Listen to Eddie describe the maturing of jazz music and jazz audiences abroad
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