Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ensembles — and he wants to educate others on just that. Tokunaga, a first year ...

Too many influences to be listed here. I am where I am thanks to my wonderful mentors Solhi al-Wadi, Shurki Shawki, Nicolai Viovanof and Anatoly Moratof back in Damascus, and Charles Neidich in New ...

George Gershwin's 1935 folk opera, Porgy and Bess, a quintessentially American masterpiece, has had its share of jazz interpretations. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald visited the work in 1957 on ...

Feel the soul of jazz come alive in David Baker’s Jazz Suite. The clarinet sings, the rhythms groove, and the melodies flow like a late-night conversation—sometimes smooth, sometimes playful, always ...

Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said Sunday.He was "a huge monument for modern jazz, for European jazz, ...

Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.