Luciano held for several years the only existing position of jazz clarinet lecturer in the UK at the time, also teaching classical and contemporary music and his “encore” (Gershwin’s Summertime) ...

The music they played had its roots in the Southern jazz forms ... That's right: cornet, trombone, and clarinet. In those early jazz combos, the clarinet provided a soaring, high register obbligato ...

Jazz funk is a style of music that grew out of jazz ... As well as the acoustic trumpet, trombone, saxophone and clarinet of jazz, funk often features these electric instruments: ...

Often typecast into supporting roles, the clarinet took the spotlight ... s interest in Hungarian and Bulgarian folk music and the American jazz that was catching his ear. The first movement, ...