Composition for solo clarinet, evidently an etude, found in Music Manuscript Notebook 2 (MMN2). No known recording.
From Marty Ehrlich: This piece is three pages of solid notes, without rests—there is no place to breathe, which is interesting coming from a woodwind player. It is virtuosic writing, deeply chromatic, uses the full range of the instrument, and is full of arpeggiated patterns.
Hemphill once told me he was not a big fan of the clarinet as a solo instrument in jazz (John Carter was probably the exception), but he liked the bass clarinet. He usually had me play the latter when he included me in his small groups. He had started with clarinet in junior high school, but once he had an alto sax he never returned to it.