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 ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jr. Jazz Band offers an exploration of great pre-WWII voices of jazz clarinet with the help of prominent contemporary exponents of the “old school." Evan ...

Kenny Davern, who died Tuesday at 71, was a jazz player regarded as one of the great clarinet players of his generation. In a career that stretched more than 50 years, Davern was widely hailed for the ...

Perugia-born clarinettist Gabriele Mirabassi (b. 1967) is known in jazz circles. He has in the past made albums with jazz greats such as trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and pianist John Taylor. The harmonic ...

Jimmie Noone, one of the best clarinetists of the 1920s, was leading the Apex Club Orchestra by the end of the decade.

After meeting at the University of Michigan, five classically trained musicians formed an unusual ensemble and called ...

TRANSCRIPT: I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" is as much a story of jazz as ...

Welcome to La Crosse, where jazz lovers might be few in numbers but are large in their passion for jazz. How else could you pull off a yearly jazz festival in a community as small as La Crosse? The ...

From his backyard shop off the Danforth, Weir has worked on clarinets and saxophones for professionals from top orchestras, ...

The Hope College Great Performance Series will conclude its 2022-23 season with the Camille Thurman Quintet, a rising jazz star, on Friday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theatre. The New ...

A patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was ...