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clarinetist

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Recent Examples of clarinetist The ambient dub producer and clarinetist will release Memoria on September 4 via Smalltown Supersound. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026 Principal clarinetist Dario Brignoli went in a different direction while playing an arrangement of George Gershwin’s Three Preludes. — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 Rollins and his two older siblings were all introduced to music early by their father, who was a clarinetist. — Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026 Performers include clarinetist Anthony McGill, violinists Leila Josefowicz and Geneva Lewis, and the Colburn Orchestra, making its Ojai Music Festival debut. — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2026 Legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman hired Peplowski to play tenor saxophone in his new outfit in 1984 after coming out of retirement. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026 Albert Navarro had been a saxophonist and a clarinettist who worked as a music teacher and as a bandleader at resort hotels. — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 La Jolla Music Society brings together three top classical solo artists, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, cellist Kian Soltani and pianist Alessio Bax, performing together works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025

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Pat Almazan, daughter of Frank Teplansky, praised her father as a WWII and Korean War veteran, as well as an artist, pianist and magician.

— Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 14 July 2026
Lizzo, pianist Yunchan Lim and the CSO officially opened what is now the Hunter Pavilion on Saturday night.

— Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2026

Definition of pianist

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For composer and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Christopher Crenshaw, that collective spirit is the music’s genius.

— Abraham Swee, USA Today, 29 June 2026
The core group now augments itself with the bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and, for the first time in the band’s history, vocals.

— Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026

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Sándor Fehér was a 38-year-old violinist from Hungary who was working as an entertainer aboard the Costa Concordia.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
For this, Golub assembled a band including trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, who has made his own deep dives into microtonal music, inspired a great deal by Iraqi maqams, and five-string violinist Layale Chaker.

— Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 July 2026

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution spoke with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant, Mike Love of the Beach Boys and trumpeter Lee Loughnane of Chicago about what keeps them on the road.

— Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 14 July 2026
In Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which follows a blues group’s fraught recording sessions in the 1920s, Boseman portrayed a trumpeter named Levee Green opposite Viola Davis’ blues singer Ma Rainey.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026

Definition of trumpeter

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The London saxophonist and his ensemble fuse jazz with diverse strains of global trance music—Moroccan gnawa, Berlin kosmische—into a hypnotic, utopian expression of spiritual union.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
For his concert tonight, Wednesday at the all-ages Dizzy’s, Sellers has assembled a talent-rich band that includes Kenyatta, trumpeter Curtis Taylor, bassist Justin Grinnell and fast-rising young saxophonist Kahlil Childs.

— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

Definition of saxophonist

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His father, saxophonist, flutist and vocalist Scott Mayo, performed with Earth, Wind & Fire and Sérgio Mendes.

— Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
Elena Pinderhughes, Club Molson Elena Pinderhughes brought her unique blend of jazz, soul and improvisation to Club Molson, showcasing her talents as a flutist, vocalist and composer.

— Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of flutist

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Other members of Dylan’s current touring band are guitarist Joel Paterson, bassist Tony Garnier and drummer Anton Fig.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
Singer Jon Anderson, guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, and drummer Alan White all spent the downtime cutting solo albums.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2026

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