Jazz musician whose virtuosic abilities with the clarinet and tenor saxophone straddled traditional and modern jazz ...

Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.

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 ...

Adrian Galante is a multifaceted, exciting, young multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer whose remarkable command of his craft belies his youth. At a recent appearance at New York’s legendary ...

For most professional jazz musicians the jazz life is a labor of love—endless gigs over countless miles, early morning starts and early morning finishes. It is not all glamour, and the bills have to ...

For more than 30 years, fans knew they could generally find clarinetist Doreen Ketchens busking on the corner of Royal and St. Peters streets in the heart of New Orleans's jazz district. When she wasn ...