Bass clarinetist, composer, and bandleader Todd Marcus is one of the few jazz artists worldwide to focus exclusively on the bass clarinet as a solo instrument. While use of bass clarinet in jazz ...

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 music ...

The role of the clarinet in jazz changed from vital to marginal in little more than a decade, between the last hurrahs of the big swing bands at the end of the 1930s, and the rise of the ...