It was about five minutes into Carey Bell's remarkable performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday night that I realized I was hearing a master storyteller at ...

It is a long tube made of wood (or plastic) and has metal keys to press. The bottom of the clarinet is shaped like a bell. The clarinet player is sometimes called upon to play the saxophone or the ...

Initially crafted from wood, Sax's instruments flared at the tip to form a music-amplifying bell. Designed in seven ... the single-reed mouthpiece of a clarinet. Although the saxophone quickly ...