Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.

Clarinetist/composer Luca Luciano is a champion of contemporary music and his compositions, part of his academic research, have been premiered at the Bristol Cathedral and the prestigious St Martin in ...

Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said ...

The clarinet is one of the most important instruments in the foundation of jazz, from its early progenitors Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Edmond Hall and George Lewis to such later famed ...

Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.

Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ensembles — and he wants to educate others on just that. Tokunaga, a first year ...

Feel the soul of jazz come alive in David Baker’s Jazz Suite. The clarinet sings, the rhythms groove, and the melodies flow like a late-night conversation—sometimes smooth, sometimes playful, always ...

Mozart didn't know Jazz Fest, but he knew about the power of the clarinet. He wrote some of his most gorgeous concertos for the instrument, knowing its clear, clean timbre could lift melodies to ...

Music Jazz clarinetist and composer Don Byron has taken his classical training and his ear for improvisation deep into the realms of salsa, klezmer, rock, chamber music and much more. He's as varied ...