Title: The problem with Margot Leverett...
Product review: Clarinet is a beautiful and adaptable instrument that has been pigeon-holed into classical, klezmer and trad jazz music for way too long. Eddie Daniels showed the way for modern jazz clarinet, and I hoped Leverett was going to do the same for bluegrass so I bought her 'bluegrass' album (and no, I'm not a die-hard bluegrass fan). After listening to it, I am not surprised at all that the majority of bluegrass players want nothing to do with her, and in fact I'm fully supportive of them not doing so. It seems that while she is a very capable klezmer clarinetist, she is a god-awful musician, by which I mean that she has zero respect for any musical tradition other than her own, and is always seeking the spotlight. There are only a few tens of seconds across the entire album where she attempts to play anything even remotely like bluegrass. This album contains almost no musical innovation whatsoever.
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