Earlier this year, the clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg released two remarkable albums with two almost entirely different bands. Goldberg has left a mark in many modern improvising contexts, ...

Since the jazz clarinet never really died, renaissance—or rebirth—may not be the term that best describes what's happening to the instrument in the twenty-first century jazz universe; it is, however, ...

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 ...