Without going overseas to pad the list (Don Byron, Buddy DeFranco or Ken Peplowski may win some stateside polls and honors; Antti Sarpila and Putte Wickman won’t), one can count the number of ...

In 1955, clarinetist Sol Yaged was playing at New York's Metropole at Seventh Avenue and 48th Street. In 1960 he was at Nick's on Seventh Avenue South and 10th Street. In the early 1970s, Yaged led a ...

Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.

2002-10-22 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Abe Most, a swing clarinetist known for working with the Les Brown and Tommy Dorsey bands in the 1940s and 50s, has died. He was 82. Mr. Most, who later went to ...

Once more, the musicians of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra lived up to their Principal Pops Conductor John Morris Russell’s assessment: “These cats can swing.” And swing they did on Friday morning ...