Bennie Maupin discusses his love affair with the bass clarinet. This story is part of our spotlight this month on musicians who play instruments tuned in the lower frequencies. This month we're ...

This is FRESH AIR. The bass clarinet has a long history in modern jazz, starting with Eric Dolphy. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has been listening to the new album by Baltimore's Todd Marcus ...

But, if you have 3D printed your instrument like this bass clarinet from [Jared], then you can build it to be in whichever key you’d like. The bass clarinet is typically an instrument that comes ...

This time around, they will experience something even rarer, a piece in which the bass clarinet is the featured instrument. On top of that, this bass clarinet concerto was written by the orchestra ...

The new Lucille! is a leap forward for Jason Stein, who began by taking a leap—he picked up the bass clarinet at age 22 and played his first show with it that week. Credit: Shea Whinnery The ...

the bass and the bass clarinet essentially speak to each other. It’s a kind of an open improvising section where they’re ...

Talented clarinetists such as Cornelius Boots, who after graduating from music school in 1999 wanted to form a bass clarinet quartet, have had their ambitions squelched by the limited repertoire ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING — She recently earned first chair bass clarinet status at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Region 6 Band Concert, which qualified her to play with April’s ...

The district named him as a second chair for bass clarinet. “I’m just a kid and not larger than life because this happened to me,” Ralph said in June. “I’m just gonna keep doing all the ...