Pioneers On Record
Larry Shields (1917 with Original Dixieland Jazzband)
Leon Rappolo (1922 with New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
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New Orleans Early Classic Greats
Sidney Bechet - Johnny Dodds - Jimmy Noone
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Other Top Clarinetists of the 1920s
| Buster Bailey | Jimmy Dorsey |
| Frankie Teschemacher | Albert Nicholas |
| Barney Bigard | Omer Simeon |
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Other Vaudeville Players
| Wilbur Sweatman | Ted Lewis |
| Wilton Crawley | Boyd Senter |
| Fess Williams | |
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Clarinet Giants of the Swing Era
Benny Goodman - Artie Shaw
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Other Pre Bop Clarinetists
| Pee Wee Russell | Joe Marsala |
| Edmond Hall | Peanuts Hucko |
| Johnny Mince | Woody Herman |
| Irving Fazola | Dick Johnson |
| Abe Most | Bob Wilber |
| Kenny Davern | Ken Peplowski |
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New Orleans Revival
| Alphonse Picou | George Lewis |
| Bob Helm | Pete Fountain |
| Dr. Michael White | |
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Bop
| Stan Hasselgard | Tony Scott |
| Jimmy Hamilton | Putte Wickman |
| Eiji Kitamura | |
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Two Virtuoso Clarinet Innovators
Buddy DeFranco - Eddie Daniels
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Saxophonists who occasionally played Clarinet
| Lester Young | Eddie Miller |
| Buddy Collette | Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
| Art Pepper | Phil Woods |
| Paquito D'Rivera | |
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Avantgarde
| John LaPorta | Jimmy Giuffre |
| Bill Smith | Anthony Braxton |
| Perry Robinson | Alvin Baptiste |
| John Carter | Marty Ehrlich |
| Michael Moore | Louis Sclavis |
| Don Byron | |
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