Who introduced the bass clarinet as a solo instrument in jazz?
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Who recorded the first known bass clarinet solo in jazz? Who introduced the bass clarinet as a solo instrument in jazz by recording the first jazz album on which the leader solely played bass clarinet? Who was the first musician to play as a major jazz soloist on the bass clarinet?
Wilbur Sweatman
Herbie Mann
Eric Dolphy
Bass clarinet
Who introduced the bass clarinet as a solo instrument in jazz?
Bass clarinet Clarinet Contrabass clarinet Saxophone Double bass Eric Dolphy Don Byron Tenor saxophone Alto clarinet Jazz bass
The <b>bass clarinet</b> is a musical <b>instrument</b> of the clarinet family. Like the more 
common soprano ... In recent years, the <b>bass clarinet</b> has also seen a growing 
repertoire of <b>solo</b> literature including compositions for ... A 1772 newspaper 
article describes an <b>instrument</b> called the &quot;basse-tube,&quot; <b>invented</b> by G. Lott in 
Paris in 1772. The clarinet is a family of woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, 
a straight, ... Since the middle of the 19th century the <b>bass clarinet</b> (nowadays 
invariably in ... The clarinet is widely used as a <b>solo instrument</b>. ... It remained a 
signature instrument of <b>jazz</b> music through much of the big band era into the 
1940s. The <b>contrabass clarinet</b> and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of 
the clarinet ... Some early <b>instruments</b> were pitched in C; Arnold Schoenberg&#39;s 
Fünf ... It is occasionally used in <b>jazz</b>, and a few <b>solo</b> pieces have been written for 
it. ... In 2006 Benedikt Eppelsheim <b>introduced</b> a metal <b>contrabass clarinet</b> with a&nbsp;... The saxophone is a woodwind <b>instrument</b> usually made of brass and played with 
a single-reed ... The saxophone is also used as a <b>solo</b> and melody <b>instrument</b> or 
as a member of a horn section in ... As an outgrowth of his work improving the 
<b>bass clarinet</b>, Sax began developing an <b>instrument</b> with the projection of a brass
&nbsp;... The double <b>bass</b>, or simply the <b>bass</b> (and numerous other names), is the largest 
and ... The double <b>bass</b> is the only modern bowed string <b>instrument</b> that is tuned 
in ... In <b>jazz</b>, blues, and rockabilly, pizzicato is the norm, except for some <b>solos</b> 
and ... In his A New <b>History</b> of the Double <b>Bass</b>, Paul Brun asserts that the double
&nbsp;... His use of the <b>bass clarinet</b> helped to establish the <b>instrument</b> within <b>jazz</b>. Dolphy 
extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was&nbsp;... Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-
instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played <b>bass clarinet</b> and 
saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free <b>jazz</b> and ... He was nominated 
for a Grammy Award for his <b>bass clarinet solo</b> on &quot;I Want to Be Happy&quot; from&nbsp;... The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a 
group of instruments <b>invented</b> by Adolphe Sax in the ... Tenor sax has been an 
important <b>solo instrument in jazz</b> music. Famous and ... The tenor sax reed is 
similar in size to that used in the <b>bass clarinet</b>, so the two can be easily 
substituted. The alto clarinet is a woodwind <b>instrument</b> of the clarinet family. It is a transposing 
<b>instrument</b> ... In size it lies between the soprano clarinet and the <b>bass clarinet</b>. ... 
The alto clarinet may have been <b>invented</b> independently in America; the 
Metropolitan ... There is a notable alto clarinet <b>solo</b> in Percy Grainger&#39;s wind-band 
piece&nbsp;... <b>Jazz bass</b> is the use of the double <b>bass</b> or <b>bass</b> guitar to improvise 
accompaniment (&quot;comping&quot;) <b>basslines</b> and <b>solos</b> in a <b>jazz</b> or <b>jazz</b> fusion style. ... 
Because an unamplified double <b>bass</b> is generally the quietest <b>instrument</b> in a 
<b>jazz</b> band, ... The electric <b>bass</b> was <b>introduced</b> in the early 1950s when Roy 
Johnson (and later&nbsp;...
Herbie Mann
Bass clarinet