It's so cool. AAJ: It's interesting that the first three albums you mentioned are anchored by major alto sax players. Were you playing alto at the time? BG: I was already playing clarinet in the ...

List of Illustrations -- List of music examples -- Editorial note -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1: Basic clarinet -- 2: Origins of the clarinet -- 3: Earliest clarinets -- 4: Chalumeau -- 5: ...

Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the 1950s and '60s. This is FRESH AIR. In modern jazz and ...