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 ...

Too many influences to be listed here. I am where I am thanks to my wonderful mentors Solhi al-Wadi, Shurki Shawki, Nicolai Viovanof and Anatoly Moratof back in Damascus, and Charles Neidich in New ...

The acclaimed clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski died on Sunday, Feb. 1, during The Jazz Cruise '26 ...

George Gershwin's 1935 folk opera, Porgy and Bess, a quintessentially American masterpiece, has had its share of jazz interpretations. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald visited the work in 1957 on ...

Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said ...

Photo: Internationally acclaimed clarinetist Mariam Adam headlines Colorado Clarinet Day 2025. It seemed like a nice idea, recalls Professor of Clarinet Daniel Silver: Let’s gather together the ...

The clarinet will take center stage Thursday for the second concert in the current season of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. The Spanish clarinetist José Franch-Ballester, joined by cellist ...