Results for "Clarinet"

Justin Pierce

Saxophonist, bandleader, and educator Justin Pierce grew up in Southeast Texas, in the Gulf Coast corridor where Louisiana’s music doesn’t stop at the state line. He and vocalist Ashley Pierce began performing together as students at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, beginning a musical partnership now in its third decade. In 2010, they toured Romania with the McNeese Jazz Band under saxophonist Rick Condit, a veteran of the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

Pierce earned his doctorate in saxophone performance at the University of North Texas, where he performed with the One O’Clock Lab Band and studied with saxophonist Brad Leali, former lead altoist with the Count Basie Orchestra. He has taught jazz at the university level for more than a decade.

Adam Price

Born: May 14, 1988

Shawn Maxwell

Born: November 1, 1976

“This is bold music. Maxwell isn’t afraid to try out new ideas and take chances…” – Frank Alkyer, Downbeat Magazine

From his youth in the school music programs of Joliet, IL, through the Music B.A. program at

Millikin University, to 25 years of performing on the Chicago music scene and touring the United States, Shawn Maxwell has developed a unique voice on the saxophone.

“A spirited free-thinker and committed non-conformist” – Bill Milkowski (Millstream album notes)

From his first album of original compositions in 2005, to the 2026 release of his fourteenth album Frenetic Domain, he has forged a distinctive style of writing and arrangement. The traditions of jazz form the foundation for Shawn’s music; he builds on that with inspiration from the music he grew up with – rock, funk, hip hop, R&B, classical. Though his compositions have been compared to Frank Zappa, Philip Glass, the Canterbury Sound, and Bach…

Don Suhor: From Dixieland to Bopsieland

by Charles Suhor
September 2, 2018

This article first appeared in the 2016 issue of The Jazz Archivist. My brother, Don Suhor, played clarinet and alto sax in a stunning variety of jazz contexts for over fifty-five years--almost exclusively in New Orleans. I always felt frustrated by my brother's lack of concern with legacy. He made a few recordings as ...

Peter Kuhn

Born: February 25, 1954

Peter Kuhn made a name for himself in New York City’s “Loft Scene” in the mid to late 70’s. He played and recorded with Frank Lowe, Billy Bang, Lester Bowie, William Parker and others in that rich musical period with his music documented on Hat Hut (“Ghost of a Trance”), Soul Note (“The Kill”) his own label Big City Records (“Livin’ Right”). After a lengthy hiatus to deal with debilitating drug addiction. Peter is once again in the forefront of creative improvised music these last few years, playing with renewed passion and commitment no doubt supported by his trainings as a Zen Buddhist Priest and more than 30 years of recovery from active addiction

Melody Dornfeld

Melody Dornfeld began music lessons on piano at six years old, adding the clarinet five years later.  Growing up in a family of seven children, all who took music lessons, she grew much from an early age in listening to, performing, and teaching music.  She studied clarinet with  Dr. Ramon Kireilis, principal clarinetist of the Colorado Springs Symphony orchestra and professor of clarinet at the University of Denver, through the midst of attending five different schools during her high school years.  Music became an anchor and an avenue of personal expression as she graduated as valedictorian of the final high school and also took first place in the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Young Artists’ Competition, being noted by the Colorado Springs Gazette for “the depth of emotion” with which she played

Burchfield-Vituri Project

The Burchfield-Vituri Project is an ongoing series of collaborations between American saxophonist/woodwind doubler Tyler Burchfield and Brazilian guitarist Pedro Vituri. Influenced by modern and free jazz, traditional Brazilian music, modern classical, as well as funk and rock, Tyler and Pedro explore a wide sound palate, showcasing compositions and arrangements for duo, quartet, and larger ensemble, all of which can be heard on their debut album, Metonímia, released in March of 2018. Additionally, their versatility as performer-composers has served them well in collaborating on chamber music projects and film scores with other artists

Clarinet

By Luca Luciano

Label: Point of Departure, WMPG-FM
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Divertimento # 8 "Thamon" - 2:38; 02. Sequenza #2 in "A" Minor For Clarinet Solo - 10:00; 03. Divertimento #7 "Canone, Cadenza e Finale" from a theme of Prokofiev's Lt.Kije' - 4:57; 04. Divertimento # 4 - 1:12; 05. Sequenza #1 for Clarinet Solo - 9:14; 06. Divertimento #9 "The Damnation Of The Dreamer" - 0:42; 07. Divertimento # 10 - 3:08; 08. Naima (John Coltrane) - 1:40; 09. Three Pieces For Clarinet Solo (Igor Stravinsky) - 4:09. Tutte le composizioni sono di Luca Luciano eccetto dove indicato.

Luca Luciano: Clarinet

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2009

Questo disco in solo di Luca Luciano è principalmente un saggio sulle sue doti di clarinettista. Doti di alto rilievo, sia dal punto di vista tecnico che interpretativo. Insegnante di clarinetto jazz e classico, presso il Leeds College of Music, in Inghilterra, Luciano ha già inciso un bel disco all'inizio del decennio col chitarrista Pietro Condorelli ...

Divertimento #8 "Thamon"

January 6, 2009

Album: Clarinet
By Luca Luciano
Label: (MCPS)
Released: 0
Duration: 02:38