In Fletcher Henderson's band, the Hawk was known to take some choruses on clarinet, one of which was preserved for posterity on 1931...

It can be very difficult to find any of the music Buddy DeFranco made while a member of the Count Basie Sextet in the early 1950s. Fortunate...

It's a generally annoying habit of celebrities to publish an autobiography just after their first flush of major success, resulting in l...

You get an emergency call to play the national anthem at Lambeau Field in January. They need you to warm up the crowd, like the clarinet sou...

Few windplayers had as immediately identifiable a sound as Edmond Hall. Gritty, warm, earthy, by turns biting and tender, he was a ste...

Side A The Monkey My Ship Gravy Waltz My Man's Gone Now I Remember Bird Side B Bus Driver in the Sky Spring Will Be La...

Widely considered among the finest Selmer made, "HS*Oval" mouthpieces from the 1950s are getting more difficult to acquire. For an...