Excellent or Good Rating in the Woodwind Category: Sydney Profant (bass clarinet solo); Jeremiah Pope (clarinet solo). Excellent or Good Rating in the Brass Category: Devin Curtis (trombone solo ...

His research focuses on extended techniques and new music for solo clarinet, but also rarely performed compositions such as that of the Brazilian composers featured on this album (Claudio Santoro, ...

Dolphy was a pioneer of utilizing the bass clarinet as a solo jazz instrument ... and after a few years went to the U.S. Naval School of Music. In 1958, Dolphy joined the Chico Hamilton Quintet ...