Results for "Clarinet"

Pee Wee Russell

Born: March 27, 1906

Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell is one of those unique players that comes along only once in a lifetime, squawking his way quite expressively in an unpredictable fashion, carving out his own distinctive voice. Pee Wee was born Charles Ellsworth Russell in St. Louis and began playing clarinet in Muskogee Oklahoma which is famous for giving the jazz world pianist Jay McShann. Pee Wee's career in jazz began in the early 1920's in Chicago with Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer, cutting his first sides with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies in 1929. The band also featured Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden on trombones, Bud Freeman on tenor sax and Eddie Condon on guitar. By the early 1930's, Pee Wee moved to New York where he found a steady home in the bands of Eddie Condon and jamming with a roster of hot jazz players including Bobby Hackett, Red Allen, Edmond Hall, Hot Lips Page, Jack Bland, Buster Bailey and Vic Dickenson

Don Byron

Born: November 8, 1958

For well over a decade, Don Byron has been a singular voice in an astounding range of musical contexts, exploring widely divergent traditions while continually striving for what he calls "a sound above genre." As clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and social critic, he redefines every genre of music he plays, be it classical, salsa, hip-hop, funk, rhythm & blues, klezmer, or any jazz style from swing and bop to cutting-edge downtown improvisation. He has been consistently voted best clarinetist by critics and readers alike in leading international music journals since being named "Jazz Artist of the Year" by Down Beat in 1992

Alvin Batiste

Born: November 7, 1932

A music master, composer, arranger, educator and performer - Alvin Batiste defies description. He is a Renaissance Man for the 21st Century. He is a Music Pioneer who has contributed to every genre. He is simply "Batiste" - one of the most distinctive and virtuosic of modern jazz clarinetists, and his name alone has become synonymous with taking the music to the next level and the next generation. Although sometimes called a "New Orleans clarinetist" (his Columbia album even billed him as a "Legendary Pioneer of Jazz"), in reality Alvin Batiste is an avant-garde player who does not fit easily into any classification

Buster Bailey

Born: July 19, 1902

Buster Bailey - clarinet A highly virtuosic clarinetist from the formative years of jazz, Buster Bailey was a distinguished professional and one of the great figures of jazz clarinet. Born William C. Bailey, 19 July 1902, in Memphis, Bailey was one of two famous jazzmen to be taught by the Chicago-based classicist Franz Schoepp, the other being Benny Goodman. After working with bands led by W.C. Handy, Erskine Tate and King Oliver, Bailey joined Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in New York in 1924. He remained an important member of the band until 1937, playing alongside outstanding reed players such as Coleman Hawkins, Hilton Jefferson, Russell Procope and Ben Webster. After leaving Henderson, Bailey moved to John Kirby's musically distinguished sextet

Hans Hamelink

Born: May 5, 1953

If you like nice and easy jazzmusic, not too loud and in a cosy atmosphere, played by musicians who still have fun in making that particular music, well then you will be pleased to hear the NEW ORLEANS RED BEANS, a Dutch band that has specialised in playing Dixieland in a very old form. The ’connoisseurs’ prefer to call it ”new orleans revival”. It is the way dixieland was played on the turn of the century in New Orleans. Music meant to entertain, to dance to or just quietly enjoy. The NEW ORLEANS RED BEANS, founded in 1985, successfully create the right atmosphere by adjusting themselves to the circumstances

Paolo Carta Mantiglia

Born: June 27, 1974

Darryl Harper

Born: November 14, 1968

Darryl Harper began studying clarinet at age six in his native Philadelphia and was introduced to jazz at 16 by trombonist Anthony Hurdle. Within a year he was working professionally and began sitting in at sessions and performing with Tony Williams, Tyrone Brown, Eddie Green, Bootsie Barnes and other veteran Philadelphia-based jazz artists. Over the years he has performed with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Roscoe Mitchell, Dave Holland, Orrin Evans, Freddie Bryant, Tim Warfield and Uri Caine. He performed with violinist Regina Carter for two years and toured the U.S., Europe, South America and the Caribbean. He currently holds the clarinet chair in pianist/composer Jason Moran’s tribute project to World War I veteran James Reese Europe: Jason Moran’s Harlem Hellfighters – James Reese Europe and the Absence of Ruin.

Francisco F. Castillo

Born: October 23, 1962

SMALL JAZZ BAND - The Jazz Band of Cordoba City This traditional jazz band saw the light of day back in 1981 in the Argentine city of Cordoba, with a view to recreating the style of the first bands of the 1920s, like those of Joe “King” Oliver, Clarence Williams, Louis Armstrong, Sam Morgan, Johnny Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton and others which were perhaps not that well-known yet of equal musical worth. The Small Jazz Band is made up of teachers of Music Education. Over the span of its career, this ensemble has performed on countless occasions at the most varied events; worthy of mention are its appearances at the traditional jazz festivals in the cities of Santa Rosa, Mendoza and Rosario and the Festival Nacional de Jazz Antiguo de Bahia Blanca. In 1991, the Small Jazz Band toured several cities in Spain and in 1992 did so in Germany, appearing at the most remarkable jazz clubs in Hannover, Berlin, Bremen and other cities of great cultural importance. The Small Jazz Band has released many albums, including Harlem Joys and Alta Sociedad, an album which comprises the repertoire of the band after more than a quarter of a century of existence, featuring the collaboration of guest musicians from the United States, France and Chile, as well as from Buenos Aires.

Rick Varn

Born: February 25, 1968

Russ Guarino

Born: December 25, 1935

Graduate in Music Education, Cal State L.A. 1958, businessman for 40 years, returned to part time teaching and music in 1990. Began to perform as Dixieland-Swing band leader in 2000. I am now full-time retired and using all my energies as a clarinet player, performer, band leader specializing in Dixie-Swing-Standards. Located in Monterey, California.