Mozart didn't know Jazz Fest, but he knew about the power of the clarinet. He wrote some of his most gorgeous concertos for the instrument, knowing its clear, clean timbre could lift melodies to ...

Music loops specialist Bandmateloops has partnered with Westgate Studios to release a new line of Woodwind Virtual Instruments. Westgate Studios Woodwinds are divided into five volumes, featuring a ...

Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the... The Clarinet Trio's new album showcases the lovely ...

String instrument players, drummers and pianists are spared the more visceral aspects of playing a wind instrument: the puddles of spit next to each trumpeter’s chair; the swabbing out of every dank ...

When the younger jazzmen did away with Dixieland and big-band swing and dove into the cool depths of bop and progressive jazz, they also left behind the sweet, lucid sound of the clarinet. Once known ...

At first glance, it clearly doesn’t sound ideal: blowing forcefully through a woodwind instrument in close proximity to other people who are also blowing forcefully through woodwind instruments. Given ...

Used woodwind and brass instruments were found to be heavily contaminated with a variety of bacteria and fungi, many of which are associated with minor to serious infectious and allergic diseases, ...