Return of the clarinetist

Wendell Harrison & Mama's Licking Stick

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 4/1/2003

The mention of a jazz clarinetist often leads to an obligatory lament over the decline of the fortunes of this instrument in modern jazz. It is true that clarinetists were prominent during the first few decades of the music and that with the advent of bop in the late 1940s they were forced out of the spotlight. But a few brave souls — Buddy DeFranco, John La

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