Last week, Margaret and I dropped in on the weekly Wednesday-night music dinner at St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, on Esplanade Avenue, a post-Katrina phenomenon on a smaller scale than the New Orleans ...

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. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...

Paquito D’Rivera - alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet, bandleader, recording artist, composer. Paquito D’Rivera is a stellar example of the marriage of Latin American music and jazz. A Grammy ...

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 ...

Sometimes doing the things you don’t want to do can lead to doing things you’ve never imagined. Before Grammy nominations and award-winning albums led Billboard magazine to crown him one of the top ...

BALTIMORE — A wheezing Atlanta clarinet player, who had been playing Dixie for 30 years, was diagnosed with saxophone lung after a year of symptoms that did not improve with treatment from inhaled ...

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.