Buddy DeFranco, one of the most innovative and enduring masters of the jazz clarinet, who introduced the complex musical vocabulary of bebop to his instrument in the 1940s and had a career that lasted ...

Charlie Parker is as mythic a figure as jazz has produced. His influence on the very form of the medium reconfigured the way music was approached in virtually all realms of practice. Yet, as Bird in ...

move so gracefully on clarinet with a hot group of Brazilian players, that about 15 years ago she hadn’t encountered Choro, the music she loves so much. “I didn’t know about it at all,” she said. ” I ...

A hundred years ago, on August 29, 1920, soon after jazz was born, Charlie Parker came into this world, and in the 35 years of a life cut short by addictions and impulse-driven living, he changed the ...

Jazz solos, with chord symbols. Introd. by Jamey Aebersold. "The solos are in B♭ key, transposed to sound in unison with the original solos in E♭ key"--Page iv. "Scale syllabus": p. [3] of cover.