Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome met at a "Purple Rain" party when they were 19 — sophomores at Pratt Institute. "I asked her to dance, and we've been dancing together ever since," says James ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. The clarinet is played with a reed, which is a very thin piece of wood that ...

A Dixieland band player who didn’t clean his clarinet for 30 years is recovering from a year-long allergic reaction caused by fungus that grew inside the reed instrument, experts said. The 68-year-old ...

Piano by Nature is wrapping up its 2024-2025 season with a concert by husband-and-wife woodwind duo from right here in the Adirondacks. Todd Pray, saxophone, and Janine Sherline, clarinet are doing to ...

From Jason Kelce's impressive saxophone skills to Tina Fey's flute-playing to Steven Spielberg's love for the clarinet Stephanie Sengwe is a pop culture enthusiast with over 10 years of experience ...

In the Big Band era, players like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey and Woody Herman put the cool in clarinet. University of Florida music professor Mitchell Estrin has sparked his own clarinet revival in ...

A clarinet player developed a rare form of pneumonia because he failed to clean his instrument for 30 years. The unnamed 68-year-old man from Atlanta, U.S., suffered from ‘saxophone lung’ for a year.

Chris Barber's Jazz And Blues Band has seen many changes in personnel over its 57 years of existence, and Ian Wheeler gave more years of service than most. He played clarinet, alto and soprano ...

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the... Trumpet was too loud, clarinet was too soft — here's 'The ...