Anyone who might consider the clarinet an outdated instrument with no place in modern jazz should hear Anat Cohen, who performed at the Dakota jazz club Sunday night. Cohen, who was born and raised in ...

Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the 1950s and '60s. This is FRESH AIR. In modern jazz and ...

Earlier this year, the clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg released two remarkable albums with two almost entirely different bands. Goldberg has left a mark in many modern improvising contexts, ...

Buddy DeFranco, the innovative clarinetist who rose from the remains of the swing era to forge new and lasting prominence as the instrument’s pre-eminent interpreter of bebop, died Wednesday in Panama ...

Jazz artist Halley Shoenberg has been a dynamic presence in the greater Washington, D.C. area for several decades. In addition to leading her own exciting ensembles, she is hotly in demand performing ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. December 6, 2017 -- The hauntingly beautiful "wailing" sounds of early New Orleans jazz clarinets, often featured in brass bands or jazz funerals, are one of the most distinctive ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the summer wraps up, here are some notable local club appearances and one promising mountain jazz festival to help us savor every last moment. Ken ...

101 Let's Dance / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 102 Ridin' High / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 103 Nice Work If You Can Get It / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 104 Vibraphone Blues / Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton.