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Jazz musicians: bass clarinet

25 jazz musicians in the atlas play bass clarinet, including Eric Dolphy, Marcus Miller, Herbie Mann, John Surman and Michel Portal. Open a profile for dates, discography and line-ups.

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B♭ clarinet, it is usually pitched in B♭ (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B♭), but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B♭ clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare (in contrast to the regular A clarinet, which is quite common in classical music). Bass clarinets regularly perform in orchestras, wind ensembles and concert bands, and occasionally in marching bands and jazz bands. They also play an occasional solo role in contemporary music and jazz in particular. Someone who plays a bass clarinet is called a bass clarinettist or a bass clarinetist.

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Eric Dolphy 1928–1964 · American jazz musician (1928–1964) Marcus Miller b. 1959 · American musician, composer and producer Herbie Mann 1930–2003 · American jazz flutist (1930–2003) John Surman b. 1944 · British saxophonist and clarinetist Michel Portal 1935–2026 · French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist Elliott Sharp b. 1951 · American musician Bob Mintzer b. 1953 · American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big… Louis Sclavis b. 1953 · French jazz musician Mark Turner b. 1965 · American saxophonist and composer Courtney Pine b. 1964 · British musician Charles Gayle 1939–2023 · American jazz musician (1939–2023) Wolfgang Puschnig b. 1956 · Austrian saxophonist Willem Breuker 1944–2010 · Dutch musician (1944–2010) Anat Cohen b. 1975 · Israeli-born jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Theo Loevendie b. 1930 · Dutch composer Howard Johnson 1941–2021 · American musician (1941–2021) Bennie Maupin b. 1940 · American musician Vinny Golia b. 1946 · American musician Paul McCandless b. 1947 · American musician Joe Temperley 1929–2016 · Scottish jazz saxophonist (1929–2016) Makanda Ken McIntyre 1931–2001 · American jazz musician and composer (1931-2001) Omer Simeon 1902–1959 · American jazz clarinetist (1902–1959) LeRoi Moore 1961–2008 · American musician (1961-2008) Craig Handy b. 1962 · American tenor saxophonist Atle Nymo b. 1977 · Norwegian jazz saxophonist