Okay, my school has started a jazz band up, currently with a grand total of 2 members ( me and a friend) I was wondering if anyone knew of any jazzy duets we could play? Or trios (teacher also plays clarinet)? We're both around Grade 6 standard. Any ideas?

I think what you're probably looking for are duets in a jazzy style rather than jazz duets - i.e. I'm guessing you don't want to do any improvising from chord changes etc (would be difficult with just 2 clarinets even for quite experienced jazzers). In which case, I don't know any duets written especially for 2 clarinets. Slightly more helpfully it might be worth checking out some of the stuff written for saxophones by Lennie Niehaus. There are jazz conceptions, jazz duets and jazz inventions for 2 saxophones written for 2 equal saxophones and I don't see why they wouldn't work for 2 clarinets - depending on the range and how easy you find the top end you could always transpose down if necessary, the clarinet has such a wide range you should be able to find somewhere comfortable to play. I played a couple of his Jazz Conceptions for saxophone section (AATTB) recently - although they aren't technically too difficult they sound really nice and the parts are written so that each part has something interesting to play.

Thanks! We both actually play saxophone as well, so thats probably a good idea. Neither of us has huge trouble with high notes, althought they're not the best on clarinet. I don't mind improvising, but I know he will, so thanks!

There is a Microjazz clarinet duet book you could have a look at. Also Bill Holcombe's 6 Jazz Etudes for 2 clarinets (Musicians Publications), and also one of my favourites, 'Views of the Blues' by Gordon Lewin, which is a good jazzy suite in 3 movements (Boosey & Hawkes).