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 ...

To modern jazz and improvised music listeners, the bass clarinet has ceased to be a strange sight. Most attribute the instrument's popularity to Eric Dolphy, which, if one ignores Harry Carney or ...

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 ...

Bennie Maupin has been standing in the shadows, enhancing the music of such high-profilers as Miles Davis, Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, during much of his career. Not before time, he steps up to ...

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 ...

The bass clarinet occupies a distinct niche among the wooden cousins of the clarinet family, extending far beyond the bright registers of its soprano sibling. Shaped around a long cylindrical body ...