WErnest Ačkun was a Yugoslav clarinetist.
WAlbany Leon "Barney" Bigard was an American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington. He also played tenor saxophone.
WBernard Stanley Bilk,, known professionally as Acker Bilk, was a British clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat.
WShirley Brill is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany.
WDonald Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer.
WHarry Howell Carney was a jazz saxophonist and clarinettist who spent over four decades as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He played a variety of instruments but primarily used the baritone saxophone, being a critical influence on the instrument in jazz.
WWilliam Marcel "Buddy" Collette was an American jazz flutist, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He was a founding member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet.
WPaquito D'Rivera is a Cuban-American, clarinetist, saxophonist and composer who plays and composes jazz and classical music.
WJoe Darensbourg was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and saxophonist notable for his work with Buddy Petit, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Creath, Fate Marable, Andy Kirk, Johnny Wittwer, Kid Ory, Wingy Manone, Joe Liggins and Louis Armstrong.
WJames Francis Dorsey, professionally known as Jimmy Dorsey, was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You " and "It's The Dreamer In Me". His other major recordings were "Tailspin", "John Silver", "So Many Times", "Amapola", "Brazil ", "Pennies from Heaven" with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, "Grand Central Getaway", and "So Rare". He played clarinet on the seminal jazz standards "Singin' the Blues" in 1927 and the original 1930 recording of "Georgia on My Mind", which were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
WPierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr., known professionally as Pete Fountain, was an American jazz clarinetist.
WLawrence "Bud" Freeman was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing tenor saxophone but also able at the clarinet.
WMartin Fröst is a Swedish clarinetist and conductor. He is currently principal conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
WBenjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".
WEdmond Hall was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. Over his long career Hall worked extensively with many top performers as both a sideman and bandleader and is perhaps best known for the 1941 chamber jazz song "Profoundly Blue," which is regarded as a pre-World War II jazz classic.
WJohannes Wilhelmus "Willy" Hautvast was a Dutch clarinetist, composer and conductor.
WWoodrow Charles Herman was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental for its time; they received numerous Grammy nominations and awards.
WMichael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko was an American big band musician. His primary instrument was the clarinet but he sometimes played various saxophones.
WSharon Kam is a classical Israeli-German Solo-clarinetist. She won the ARD International Music Competition in 1992.
WKari Kriikku is a Finnish classical clarinetist.
WWilliam B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha, was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist.
WKarl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. As a teenager, he was accepted into the Komische Oper Berlin under Václav Neumann and Walter Felsenstein as clarinet soloist.
WTheodore Leopold Friedman, known as Ted Lewis, was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He fronted a band and touring stage show that presented a combination of jazz, comedy, and nostalgia that was a hit with the American public before and after World War II. He was known by the moniker "Mr. Entertainment" or Ted "Is Everybody Happy?" Lewis. Lewis died of lung failure in August 1971.
WJulian Clifton "Matty" Matlock was an American Dixieland jazz clarinettist, saxophonist and arranger.
WAnthony McGill is the principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, after having served for a decade as principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
WSabine Meyer is a German classical clarinetist.
WWalter Parazaider is an American woodwind musician best known for being a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He plays a wide variety of wind instruments, including saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He also occasionally plays guitar.
WTony Parenti was an American jazz clarinettist and saxophonist born in New Orleans. After starting his musical career in New Orleans, he had a successful career in music in New York City for decades.
WKen Peplowski is a jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist born in Cleveland, Ohio, known primarily for playing swing music. For over a decade, Peplowski recorded for Concord Records.
WCharles Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but he eventually focused solely on clarinet.
WTony Scott was an American jazz clarinetist and arranger with an interest in folk music around the world. For most of his career he was held in high esteem in new-age music circles because of his involvement in music linked to Asian cultures and to meditation.
WTokichi Setoguchi was a Japanese composer, music educator, conductor and clarinetist.
WArtie Shaw was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader and actor. Also an author, Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction.
WJörg Widmann is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. He lives and works in Berlin and Munich. His music is in part inspired by Classical and Romantic composers. Widmann was in 2018 the third most performed contemporary composer. He was clarinet and composition professor in Freiburg and is composition professor at the Barenboim–Said Akademie.
WRobert Sage Wilber was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader. Although his scope covers a wide range of jazz, Wilber was a dedicated advocate of classic styles, working throughout his career to present traditional jazz pieces in a contemporary manner. He played with many distinguished jazz leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, including Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden and Eddie Condon. In the late 1960s, he was an original member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and in the early 70s of Soprano Summit, a band which gained wide attention. In the late 1970s, he formed the Bechet Legacy Band.
WSol Yaged was an American jazz clarinetist who was strongly influenced by Benny Goodman.