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 ...

Since the end of the big band era, the clarinet has taken a backseat to its sexier woodwind cousin, the saxophone. But in the Bay Area, thanks to a fertile environment of classically trained ...

When the Colorado Symphony sets out to recreate scenes from the Disney film “Fantasia” this Saturday, clarinetist Andy Stevens may have a particularly easy job of it. Stevens owns the bass clarinet ...

PLEASANT HILL — A quirk of fate powered-up the orchestra-like sound of Karen Weber’s Clarinet Fusion ensemble, growing from four to eight players and expanding the group’s instrumental performance.

Miles Davis’ “Bitches Brew” is one of the milestone recordings in a career filled with dramatic high points. Moving the legendary trumpeter into what was, in essence, the troisieme age, or third ...

Jimmy Giuffre is a spare, soft-spoken Texan who distrusts the word jazz, but plays some of the best jazz to be heard these days—most of it of his own composition. Giuffre (pronounced joo-free) has ...