Results for "Clarinet"

Rainer Theobald

Born: March 1, 1960

Since 1981 I live as a saxophone/clarinet player, singer, composer and writer in Berlin. Inspired by artists like John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Archie Shepp, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Otis Redding as well as from Bach, Mozart or Dvorak my heart beats for Soul, Funk and Jazz Music. Live I'm playing with three bands JAMBEZI, HALLO GEN and TWO OF US. Also performing as solo saxophone player as opening act, on vernissage and exclusive events. Working together with soul and jazz musicians as there are Kenny Martin, Lionel Haas, Mike Russell, Stephenie Coker, Carmen Jaime, Zam Johnson, John Davis, Jay Oliver, Michael Rodach, Charlson Ximenes, Eva Ventura, Paul Brody as well as with people out of the pop world like F.-J

Harold Rubin

Born: May 13, 1932

Born: Friday 13th May 1932 7.00 am--Breach birth. Sickly child, protected by his mother. Started questioning the wisdom of God at the age of 5 after an incident with his black nanny and convicts working on the road on his way to nursery school. Decided to do something about his frail form at the age of 8 and started to play soccer and to swim. At the age of 14, became fascinated with the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Barney Bigard and Benny Goodman also Leadbelly and the blues. Started studying clarinet at 16 with Louis Nicholaeff who was a pupil of composition and theory with Rimsky Korsakoff at the Leningrad Conservatory

Matt Snyder

Born: September 20, 1968

Matt Snyder is a clarinetist and saxophonist based in Brooklyn. On the New York scene since 1995, his primary instruments are clarinet and bass clarinet, with baritone saxophone as his main double. He performed for over 20 years with Mike Longo's New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble, and is the longtime clarinetist for The Shul Band, the house band for The Shul Of New York, a synagogue on the Lower East Side. Past projects include Type II, a band co-founded with vibraphonist Nick Mancini, and The New Reed Quartet, which featured Matt alongside with Perry Robinson, Mark Whitecage and Rozanne Levine

Mahlon Clark

Born: March 7, 1923

Mahlon Clark clarinetist performed on the soundtracks of numerous Hollywood movies and recorded with artists as varied as Lawrence Welk and Madonna. Clark played the well-known clarinet solo of Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk," featured on the soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated movie Hatari! (1962), starring John Wayne. The song was a hit for Henry Mancini's orchestra, which recorded the soundtrack. When Lawrence Welk later recorded it, he also used Clark. While a member of Welk's orchestra (1962-68), Clark married Kathy Lennon, one of the four singing Lennon Sisters on the Welk TV show

Woody Allen

Born: December 1, 1935

As Musician

Allen is a passionate fan of jazz which is often featured prominently in his movies' soundtracks. He has played the clarinet since adolescence and chose his stage name from an idol, famed clarinetist Woody Herman. He has performed publicly at least since the late-1960s, notably with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the soundtrack of Sleeper. One of his earliest televised performances was on The Dick Cavett Show on October 20, 1971.

Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band play every Monday evening at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel, specializing in classic New Orleans jazz from the early twentieth century. The documentary film Wild Man Blues (directed by Barbara Kopple) documents a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band, as well as his relationship with Previn. The band has released two CDs: The Bunk Project (1993) and the soundtrack of Wild Man Blues (1997).

Arun Ghosh

Arun Ghosh is a British-Asian clarinettist and composer. His second album, Primal Odyssey, was released in October 2011 on camoci records. In 2008 he was selected for Edition IV of the Jerwood/PRS Foundation 'Take Five' initiative for emerging jazz musicians produced by Serious. In 2009, he was invited to perform at the jazzahead! Festival in Bremen, Germany as part of the UK showcase presented by Jazz Services. In 2010, he was made an Associate Artist at The Albany Theatre, London - a position still held and in April 2011, Ghosh was made an Artist-in-Residence for the Southbank’s Alchemy Festival

Pete Neighbour

Has performed extensively throughout his native UK, mainland Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Far East in jazz clubs, concert halls as both a guest artiste and a member of various ensembles. He now divides his time between London, England, and Columbia, South Carolina. Is spending a considerable amount of time travelling as a cabaret guest entertainer upon luxury cruise ships throughout the world.

Andy Biskin

Andy Biskin is a clarinetist and composer with a broad range of interests. In addition to leading several ensembles in the New York area, he has composed scores for film, dance, and theater. Born and raised in Texas, Biskin studied music and anthropology at Yale and later worked as an assistant to folklorist Alan Lomax. His music, scored for the traditional New Orleans front line of clarinet, trumpet, and trombone, recalls early jazz and social music, but with sudden shifts in unexpected directions. Biskin's compositions have been compared to Raymond Scott, Charles Mingus, Charles Ives, Carla Bley, and Lawrence Welk. Biskin's debut album Dogmental, on Gunther Schuller's GM Recordings label, received widespread critical acclaim

George Lewis - Clarinet

Born: July 13, 1900

A jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in his later decades of life, George Louis Francis Zeno, was born in 1900 in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Lewis was playing clarinet professionally by 1917. He played with Buddie Petit, Chris Kelly regularly, and sometimes with Kid Ory and many other band leaders, seldom traveling far from the greater New Orleans area. He had his own band for awhile The New Orleans Stompers. During the Great Depression he took a day job as a stevedore, continuing to take such music jobs after hours as he could find. In 1942 some jazz fans and writers came to New Orleans to record the legendary older trumpeter Bunk Johnson, and Bunk picked Lewis for the recording session

Dan Levinson

The cover of the August 1998 issue of The Mississippi Rag refers to Dan Levinson as the "in-demand reedman." Indeed, during an active career that began in the 1980s, he has enjoyed working with such jazz luminaries as Dick Hyman, Mel Tormé and Wynton Marsalis. A specialist in the music of the 1920s and '30s, Dan functions as both a leader and sideman, often performing alongside such prominent musicians as Howard Alden, Joe Ascione, Dan Barrett, Jon-Erik Kellso, Randy Reinhart, Randy Sandke, and Mark Shane. Originally from the Los Angeles area, Dan moved to New York in 1983. The following year he met veteran reedman James "Rosy" McHargue, then 82 years old, who became Dan's friend and mentor