Explore Kinan Azmeh's biography, discography, and jazz legacy. Discover albums, articles, and interviews about Kinan Azmeh – one of jazz's most celebrated clarinet players.

"Don't judge a book—or CD—by its cover" may be a cliché, but it's still good advice. Joseph Howell's Jazz Clarinet Now features a smiling picture of Howell, neatly attired in a suit and tie, a ...

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, one of the most innovative and enduring masters of the jazz clarinet, who introduced the complex musical vocabulary of bebop to his instrument in the 1940s and had a career that lasted ...

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 instrument styles in American music. The ...

Nothing compares to a summertime classical or modern jazz quartet. The music washes over you like a cool breeze. Three carefully curated concert series in Connecticut take place this week in rarified ...

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 ...

The celebrated jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk has died aged 85. Bilk was perhaps best known for his 1961 song Stranger on the Shore and was one of the most important figures in the revival of ...