Dallas-born jazz clarinet and saxophone player Jimmy Giuffre died late last week on Thursday, April 24, of pneumonia and complications of Parkinson's disease. After learning to play the clarinet at ...

Jimmy Giuffre is a spare, soft-spoken Texan who distrusts the word jazz, but plays some of the best jazz to be heard these days—most of it of his own composition. Giuffre (pronounced joo-free) has ...

Pioneering jazz performer and composer Jimmy Giuffre, whose distinctive avant-garde clarinet style drove a lengthy career that included working with legend Woody Herman, has died at age 86, US media ...

While Jimmy Giuffre did not create free improvisation, he was certainly part of the birthing team. It’s Jimmy Giuffre’s birthday. An unseasonable snow covers the ground around the converted old New ...