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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Composer John Corigliano was composer-in-residence at last summer’s Colorado Music Festival in Boulder. He offered advice to Jason Shafer on how to play his ...

Kenny Davern, who died Tuesday at 71, was a jazz player regarded as one of the great clarinet players of his generation. In a career that stretched more than 50 years, Davern was widely hailed for the ...

The clarinet will take center stage Thursday for the second concert in the current season of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. The Spanish clarinetist José Franch-Ballester, joined by cellist ...