Eddie Daniels: Just Friends

Although it was popular in premodern jazz styles, the clarinet has had few top-level performers since the beginning of the bebop era. But Eddie Daniels, who is also a fine tenor saxophonist, concentrated exclusively on the clarinet for a time starting in the 1980s. To Bird With Love is Daniels tribute to Charlie Parker. Just Friends was the best-known track on Parkers 1949 strings album. Daniels facile bebop honors Parkers classic performance.