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 ...

Here we have a video of a talented young man playing Cannibal Corpse's most famous song, 'Hammer Smashed Face' on his bass clarinet. More like 'Hammer Smashed Bass ...

Three bass clarinetists have put forth albums in these hard times, aiming to earn respect for that dour, difficult instrument. Rudi Mahall especially earns praise. Irony and affectionate satire rule ...

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 ...

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 ...

Towards the end of his life, Morton Feldman abandoned descriptive or poetic titles for his works, labelling them instead simply by their instrumentation and in the process underlining the wonderfully ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Orchestra has a new bass clarinetist. Filling a seat empty since August, Yann Ghiro has been appointed by music director Franz Welser-Most to the orchestra's clarinet ...

Since the end of the big band era, the clarinet has taken a backseat to its sexier woodwind cousin, the saxophone. But in the Bay Area, thanks to a fertile environment of classically trained ...