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 ...

Clarinetist Martin Frost's recent Weber was exceptional, warranting an appraisal of his earlier Mozart clarinet music. It is difficult to overstate the cultural value of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and ...

John Bruce Yeh, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's internationally admired and long-serving assistant principal clarinet and solo E-flat clarinet, features intimate works by noteworthy Windy City ...

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 ...