I'm happy to have been invited to reflect on five clarinetists whose work has enriched my life, and to share a track by each of them. Clarinet, like many instruments, is a strict taskmaster — an ...

Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ...

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 ...

Clarinetist Ken Peplowski returns to the Attucks Jazz Club! “Brilliantly entertaining” (DownBeat), Peplowski has been hailed by the BBC as “arguably the greatest living jazz clarinetist.” Hearing this ...

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 ...

Adrian Galante is a multifaceted, exciting, young multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer whose remarkable command of his craft belies his youth. At a recent appearance at New York’s legendary ...

Without going overseas to pad the list (Don Byron, Buddy DeFranco or Ken Peplowski may win some stateside polls and honors; Antti Sarpila and Putte Wickman won’t), one can count the number of ...

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 ...