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 ...

There is something Brobdingnagian about the bass clarinet; the sounds it can make are too grand for our human dimension There is something Brobdingnagian about the bass clarinet; the sounds it can ...

is an odd-looking instrument, all the more so because it’s rarely encountered. More than three feet long, its long central core is an extended version of the standard clarinet-a black tube with silver ...

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 ...

Ullmann is unmistakably the leader of The Clarinet Trio. Of the album's eleven tracks, all are by him except "Homogenous Emotions" by Ornette Coleman and "Collectives # 13 #14" by Kupke, Thieke and ...

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 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 ...

CLAREMONT — Now in its eighth year as a summer festival, the Claremont Clarinet Festival returns to the Pomona College campus June 16-22, presenting 14 solo clarinetists in four public concerts of ...