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Bass Clarinet: Die Enttauschung Eponymous, Achille Succi, Jason Stein, Andrew Robson/Paul Cutlan, Le Trio de Clarinettes & Edmund Welles article by Andrey Henkin, published on April 6, 2008 at All ...
Marcus sits up front, zoned-in, bass clarinet upright in his lap. “I call it my jazz community service,” he says. Then again, nearly everything Marcus does could be considered community service.
Eric Allan Dolphy was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto players to rise to prominence in the 1960s. He was also the ...
Unlike a poorly received New Yorker piece purportedly written by jazz great Sonny Rollins, this is not satire. “Jazz might be the stupidest thing anyone ever came up with,” read “Sonny ...
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 Ar… ...
Featuring hundreds of rare images, from record-cover artwork to pictures of live performances, each chronologically arranged section contains special box features on such topics as the unique tonal ...
The Queen's Cartoonists is a jazz band with elements of classical music, comedy and clowning that performs music live to animation, both old and contemporary.
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, who Kevin says goes ...
Not even arena gigs with his famous sister, comedian Amy Schumer, can tempt Jason Stein from his drive to make better jazz.
Since the end of the big band era, the clarinet has taken a backseat to the sexier saxophone. But in the Bay Area, the oft-overlooked instrument is having a moment.