The bass clarinet is typically an instrument that comes in the key of B flat, but [Jered] wanted one that was a minor third lower. Building a traditional clarinet is not exactly the easiest ...

The music includes a variety of world influences, from Harlem to Africa and India, within a contemporary setting—featuring powerful doses of Maupin's masterly bass clarinet, the inspired playing of ...

When Ambler died last year, he willed the bass clarinet to Stevens. The instrument is "the Stradivarius of bass clarinets," Stevens says. "It's been very well-cared for.

The Clarinets is both the name of the all-clarinet improvisational trio of Chris Speed, Oscar Noriega and Anthony Burr, and the title of their new CD, the first release on Speed's new Skirl Records ...