Too many influences to be listed here. I am where I am thanks to my wonderful mentors Solhi al-Wadi, Shurki Shawki, Nicolai Viovanof and Anatoly Moratof back in Damascus, and Charles Neidich in New ...

Griffin Woodard is a composer, bass clarinetist, and bandleader who believes in the transformative power of music. As an instrumentalist, Woodard’s primary focus is playing the bass clarinet in a jazz ...

Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present. By Alex Williams Ken Peplowski, a critically acclaimed jazz clarinetist ...

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 ...