Today's clarinetists

[Peter Friedman]

Recently became aware of Australian  Adrian Cunningham (now living in New York)

He plays clarinet, tenor saxophone and flute all very well.

[Cyril]

13 hours ago, Balladeer said:

John Ruocco 

Joris Roelofs

 

[optatio]

Don Byron

[Cyril]

1 hour ago, optatio said:

Don Byron

Don Byron was already mentioned.  

[optatio]

Oh yes - at the beginning of this thread.

Hans Kumpf

Theo Jörgensmann

[mandrill]

Beside Ken Peplowski & Anat Cohen (and, perhaps, Don Byron, who's not much active recording nowadays), the rest of the players mentioned are pretty obscure, working mostly in free jazz & similar esoteric idioms.

Looks like there is not much  enthusiasm for "licorice stick" in jazz anymore.

[Olie Brice]

On 03/10/2016 at 4:46 AM, clifford_thornton said:

 Alex Ward (who also plays guitar)

also a brilliant composer

[jazztrain]

On 10/1/2016 at 10:20 PM, jeffcrom said:

I agree with the praise for many of these musicians. I just wanted to throw in my opinion that Evan Christopher is perhaps the finest living jazz clarinetist.

I find it difficult to argue with that opinion (and wouldn't) now that Buddy De Franco and Kenny Davern are gone.

[mikeweil]

The one clarinettist that really caught my ear in recent years was Swiss Marcel Lüscher - but there are very few recordings he did ...

Edited November 5, 2016 by mikeweil

[optatio]

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