A Dixieland band player who didn’t clean his clarinet for 30 years is recovering from a year-long allergic reaction caused by fungus that grew inside the reed instrument, experts said. The 68-year-old ...

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome met at a "Purple Rain" party when they were 19 — sophomores at Pratt Institute. "I asked her to dance, and we've been dancing together ever since," says James ...

Sometimes doing the things you don’t want to do can lead to doing things you’ve never imagined. Before Grammy nominations and award-winning albums led Billboard magazine to crown him one of the top ...

Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ...

BALTIMORE — A wheezing Atlanta clarinet player, who had been playing Dixie for 30 years, was diagnosed with saxophone lung after a year of symptoms that did not improve with treatment from inhaled ...

Last week, Margaret and I dropped in on the weekly Wednesday-night music dinner at St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, on Esplanade Avenue, a post-Katrina phenomenon on a smaller scale than the New Orleans ...

Chris Barber's Jazz And Blues Band has seen many changes in personnel over its 57 years of existence, and Ian Wheeler gave more years of service than most. He played clarinet, alto and soprano ...

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the... Trumpet was too loud, clarinet was too soft — here's 'The ...