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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marcus gets a clean, unfettered sound from both his band and his instrument on his new album. Trio+ is crisp, tight and varied — with more good melodies than we can dip into. This is FRESH AIR. The ...

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 ...

The sound you hear at any orchestra concert comes from a collection of instruments more valuable than you can imagine. Their value comes not just from antiquity and craftsmanship, but also from their ...

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 ...

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 ...