Playing music as part of a group typically requires that not only are all of the instruments tuned to each other, but also that the musicians play in a specific key. For some musicians, like pianists ...

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 ...

Bennie Maupin discusses his love affair with the bass clarinet. This story is part of our spotlight this month on musicians who play instruments tuned in the lower frequencies. This month we're ...

When you open a bass clarinet case, the first things you see are the curved metal neck and the endpin for standing it on the floor. Once you assemble it and face the music stand, you see nothing but ...

When did you start playing the Bass Clarinet, and what was it about the Bass Clarinet that led you to choose it? The first time I tried Bass Clarinet was at my clarinet teacher's house when I had only ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jason Noble plays Sebastián Tozzola’s Paisaje Folklórico No. 2 on bass clarinet, with Tamara-Anna ...

Iowa City Community School District students earned more selections to the 2026 Iowa All-State Music Festival than students ...

The clarinet is a musical instrument belonging to the woodwind family. It looks similar to an oboe, however it is a single-reed instrument, as opposed to the double-reed of an oboe, and has a very ...

Have you ever shown up to band practice after a long break and looked over the row right in front of the conductor? There is a long line of people holding black tubes, and before you can even count ...