Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.

Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ensembles — and he wants to educate others on just that. Tokunaga, a first year ...

For an acclaimed clarinetist like Ken Peplowski, the upbeat Christmas standards like “Sleigh Ride” are fun to play, but the guest artist at next week’s “Swingin’ Christmas” concert by the Knoxville ...

A clarinet trio is a chamber trio comprising a clarinet, a bowed string instrument such as a violin, viola or cello, and a piano; the phrase can also refer to a composition written for such a trio.

Mozart didn't know Jazz Fest, but he knew about the power of the clarinet. He wrote some of his most gorgeous concertos for the instrument, knowing its clear, clean timbre could lift melodies to ...

Jazz clarinetist Harry Skoler was born in Syracuse, NY in 1956. Harry is Professor of Woodwinds at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee ...