tarogato

But to reach his greatest heights, this first-generation free jazz originator-who wields nearly every horn in the clarinet and saxophone families, as well as a Middle European single-reed instrument called the tarogato - requires a partner with the energy and ideas to match his immense, commanding tone, bottomless stamina, and whisker-singeing ferocity.

Chicago Reader 2010

But to reach his greatest heights, this first-generation free jazz originator-who wields nearly every horn in the clarinet and saxophone families, as well as a Middle European single-reed instrument called the tarogato - requires a partner with the energy and ideas to match his immense, commanding tone, bottomless stamina, and whisker-singeing ferocity.

Chicago Reader 2010

But to reach his greatest heights, this first-generation free jazz originator-who wields nearly every horn in the clarinet and saxophone families, as well as a Middle European single-reed instrument called the tarogato - requires a partner with the energy and ideas to match his immense, commanding tone, bottomless stamina, and whisker-singeing ferocity.

Chicago Reader 2010

Mr. Lovano displays admirable versatility playing alto clarinet, tarogato (an Eastern European reed instrument) and aulochrome (a double soprano saxophone).

The Musical Benefits of Ties That Bind 2009

And he, playing tenor saxophone and, on occasion, alto flute and tarogato (an Eastern European reed instrument), is by turns hard-blowing and ruminative.

The Best Musicians Span Continents, Generations 2008

Mr. Lloyd, who had played only the tenor saxophone, despite the presence of his two other instruments, flute and tarogato a relative of the clarinet, sat on the piano bench next to Mr. Moran, playing watery figures on the keyboard's upper half, and quietly intoned passages from the Bhagavad Gita.

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