clarinetist
Americannoun
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Born in Maywood, Ill., Parazaider began his music career as a clarinetist, before founding Chicago with childhood friends in the group’s namesake city.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026
The Modern Jazz Quartet recorded two albums there, one with the clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and the other with the saxophonist Sonny Rollins.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, explains what it’s like to both perform and take in the beauty of the orchestra simultaneously.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2024
Still, neither Nézet-Séguin nor the Philadelphia Orchestra are quite fluent in jazz, even given the principal clarinetist Ricardo Morales’s luxuriously, rapturously gooey upward glissando in the famous wail that opens “Rhapsody.”
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
Even in that hour of mortal peril the clarinetist was true to his gipsy humour.
From Eyes Like the Sea by Jókai, Mór
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