Since the end of the big band era, the clarinet has taken a backseat to its sexier woodwind cousin, the saxophone. But in the Bay Area, thanks to a fertile environment of classically trained ...

Think clarinet and what comes to mind? Licorice stick? Marching-band music? Benny Goodman? Sure, all those things, and probably a lot more to the many who suffered through clarinet lessons at age 10 ...

PLEASANT HILL — A quirk of fate powered-up the orchestra-like sound of Karen Weber’s Clarinet Fusion ensemble, growing from four to eight players and expanding the group’s instrumental performance.

A large-scale study from the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota finds no evidence for a long-believed association between musical training and enhanced neural processing of sounds at ...

This is FRESH AIR. 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 ...