Editing Jazz band (section)

===Woodwind section===

====Clarinet====
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The clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a [[single-reed]] mouthpiece. A clarinet player is known as a clarinetist. Originally, the clarinet was a central instrument in jazz, beginning with the New Orleans players in the 1910s. It remained a signature instrument of jazz through much of the [[big band]] era into the 1940s.<ref name="Cambridge companion">{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Colin James |title=The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet |series=[[Cambridge Companions to Music]] |date=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge and New York |isbn=0521476682 |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00prof |url-access=registration }}</ref> [[Larry Shields]] was the clarinetist for the [[Original Dixieland Jazz Band]], the first jazz band to record commercially in 1917. The American players [[Ted Lewis (musician)|Ted Lewis]] and [[Jimmie Noone]] were pioneers of the instrument in jazz bands. The B{{music|flat}} soprano clarinet was the most common instrument, but a few early jazz musicians such as [[Alcide Nunez]] preferred the C soprano clarinet, and many New Orleans jazz brass bands have used an E{{music|flat}} soprano clarinet.<ref name="Cambridge companion" /> 
Swing clarinetists such as [[Benny Goodman]], [[Artie Shaw]], and [[Woody Herman]] led successful big bands and smaller groups from the 1930s onward.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schuller |first1=Gunther |title=The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945 |date=1989 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0195071409 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195043129 |url-access=registration }}</ref>

With the decline of the big bands' popularity in the late 1940s, the clarinet faded from its prominent position in jazz and the saxophone rose in importance in many jazz bands, probably because it uses a less complicated fingering system.<ref name="Palmer">{{cite web |last1=Palmer |first1=Robert |title=John Carter's Case for the Clarinet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/05/arts/john-carter-s-case-for-the-clarinet.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=21 September 2016 |date=5 July 1981 }}</ref> But the clarinet did not entirely disappear. In the late 50s, traditional jazz experienced a revival, with the notable example of clarinetist [[Acker Bilk]]'s Bristol Paramount Jazz Band. Some of the works of Bilk's jazz band reached the pop charts.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kaufman |first=Will |author2=Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson |title=Britain and the Americas |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2005 |isbn=1-85109-431-8 }}</ref>

====Saxophone section====
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In the saxophone section, all of the saxophones will play a similar melodic line, but the [[baritone saxophone|baritone sax]] doubles by occasionally joining in with the [[bass trombone]] and [[bass (guitar)|bass]] to play the bass line. A big band saxophone section typically consists of two [[alto saxophone]]s, two [[tenor saxophone]]s, and one baritone saxophone.<ref name="bestsax">{{cite web |last1=Rzepiela |first1=Jeff |title=A Guide to Playing in a Big Band Saxophone Section |date=August 7, 2012 |url=http://www.bestsaxophonewebsiteever.com/playing-big-band-saxophone-section/ |access-date=July 25, 2014}}</ref>