Article: Culture: Refining the strokes of the old masters; Don Byron, champion of the clarinet, has taken up the cause of kids and cartoon music. Terry Grimley reports.(Features)

Byline: Terry Grimley

Don Byron is well known on the contemporary American jazz scene as the man who rediscovered the clarinet.

Rarely can an instrument have fallen so abruptly and completely from grace as the clarinet did from the high-flying days of swing to its total disappearance in the bebop era.

You might say that Byron, a technical wizard with a well known aversion to musical pigeon holes, has dedicated himself to reinstating the clarinet in jazz - were it not for the fact that he has shown impatience at being labelled a jazz musician at ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!