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Jazz Clarinet. Help for a nontraditional woodwind route

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Hello. My son, a junior, is a clarinet player. He's been migrating more to jazz music, rather than classical, in the last two years. He also now does play saxophone but he is stronger on clarinet and also prefers that. In looking at many of the better-known schools out there, it seems that one enters either via the Classical department or via the Jazz department, and if you play clarinet, you have a wonderful selection of well-known teachers in the Classical department, and zero clarinet teachers in Jazz. Furthermore, many seem like they would make him audition and even enter the jazz program only with sax, and use clarinet as a secondary instrument. (Which he ultimately may concede to but the problem is that his audition won't be as strong on sax compared with kids who have grown up doing that as a primary instrument.)
Are there any other students out there playing clarinet (or maybe flute or other) who want to do something other than classical? Any advice on schools that are more progressive and that would be into this cross-over? OR do we have to email each school and find out whether they would consider him and how it would work. (Which we have slowly started doing.)
Many thanks.

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