Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. Without fanfare, the bass clarinet projects one of the most alluring timbres in all of jazz-a ...

Bass clarinetist, composer, and bandleader Todd Marcus is one of the few jazz artists worldwide to focus exclusively on the bass clarinet as a solo instrument. While use of bass clarinet in jazz ...

Griffin Woodard is a composer, bass clarinetist, and bandleader who believes in the transformative power of music. As an instrumentalist, Woodard’s primary focus is playing the bass clarinet in a jazz ...

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, ...

Marcus gets a clean, unfettered sound from both his band and his instrument on his new album. Trio+ is crisp, tight and varied — with more good melodies than we can dip into. This is FRESH AIR. The ...

If Chicagoan James Falzone isn’t the hardest working clarinet player in jazz, he’s pretty close to it. In addition to touring with his widely admired jazz quartet KLANG and exploring Arabic music ...

The role of the clarinet in jazz changed from vital to marginal in little more than a decade, between the last hurrahs of the big swing bands at the end of the 1930s, and the rise of the ...