Seventy years later, that music still makes your head spin, feet move and spirits rise. The sound of Benny Goodman - the blazing clarinet soaring above a riotously rocking big band or dancing with ...

Without going overseas to pad the list (Don Byron, Buddy DeFranco or Ken Peplowski may win some stateside polls and honors; Antti Sarpila and Putte Wickman won’t), one can count the number of ...

15-1/8 x 15 inches (38.4 x 38.1 cm) (image) ...

When the younger jazzmen did away with Dixieland and big-band swing and dove into the cool depths of bop and progressive jazz, they also left behind the sweet, lucid sound of the clarinet. Once known ...

When the JVC Jazz Festival presents Legends of the Clarinet at the Iridium from June 17th-22nd it will mark the return of the bebop era's two greatest innovators of that instrument, now largely ...

Hamilton “Ham” Carson — regarded by Seattle musicians and fans as the most accomplished swing clarinetist in Seattle — died last week, on Jan. 14. He was 86. According to Margaret Carson, his wife of ...