James Sclater [slôdər] (b. October 24, 1943) is an American composer and was a Professor of Music at Mississippi College for forty years. In the 1990s, Sclater conducted research on famed English clarinetist, Reginald Kell. His writings on Kell were published as a series of four installments in the International Clarinet Association’s journal, The Clarinet, in 2001, titled “Reginald Kell: Clarinetist without A Country.” This collection contains the
materials that Sclater collected over the course of his research on Kell, as well as multiple drafts and revisions of his biographical articles on him.
