To modern jazz and improvised music listeners, the bass clarinet has ceased to be a strange sight. Most attribute the instrument's popularity to Eric Dolphy, which, if one ignores Harry Carney or ...

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 ...

If Chicagoan James Falzone isn’t the hardest working clarinet player in jazz, he’s pretty close to it.In addition to touring with his widely admired jazz quartet KLANG and exploring Arabic ...

Hamilton's quintet was unique for its instrumentation, with cello, bass clarinet, guitar, bass and drums; it also focused on musical forms more commonly associated with classical music than jazz ...

But on bass clarinet, Eric Dolphy did things that other musicians, even classical musicians, could not do. Great leaps of intervals, great playing of octaves in his music, from top to bottom, very ...

The two other members of Edmund Welles, Jeff Anderle, an instructor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Jon Russell play in Sqwonk, a bass clarinet duo. The groups tend to combine ...