Seventy-five years ago, a kid from the West Side of Chicago transformed the world with the sound of his clarinet. In January of 1938, jazz musician Benny Goodman conquered Carnegie Hall and in August ...

Tony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop. With Buddy DeFranco, Mr. Scott was considered ...

“Noted: A Two-Timing Clarinetist” (Short Subjects, The Chronicle, September 7) concerned clarinetists who play two of their instruments at once. It brought to mind a couple of saxophonists who were ...