Seventy-five years ago, a kid from the West Side of Chicago transformed the world with the sound of his clarinet. In January of 1938, jazz musician Benny Goodman conquered Carnegie Hall and in ...

The clarinet is one of the most important instruments in the foundation of jazz, from its early progenitors Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Edmond Hall and George Lewis to such later famed ...

Tony Scott, a jazz musician who helped expand the musical limits of the clarinet and who was an early proponent of what is now called world music, died Wednesday at his home in Rome, where he had ...

In modern jazz and improvised music, there are many single-instrument choirs, such as saxophone quartets and brass ensembles. Also, bands have clarinets. Germany's The Clarinet Trio has been ...

Buddy DeFranco, one of the most innovative and enduring masters of the jazz clarinet, who introduced the complex musical vocabulary of bebop to his instrument in the 1940s and had a career that ...

Pete and his clarinet brought a lot of love and music to the world. He will greatly be missed.” Fountain combined the Swing Era sensibility of jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman with the down-home ...

Allen grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, listening to the sounds of Duke Ellington's jazz orchestra. The clarinet was the first instrument Allen learned to play. He then learned the saxophone ...