Jazz Suite is the second album by bassoonist Daniel Smith to be reviewed in these precincts (Smokin' Hot Bassoon Blues was the first). This one is far more agreeable, for at least two reasons: first, ...

If there's a case to be made for featuring the bassoon in a jazz ensemble, bassoonist Daniel Smith (now out with his fifth jazz album) is probably the one to make it. And while the album, Smokin' Hot ...

Night Train; Hummin’; Better Get Hit in Your Soul; Back at the Chicken Shack; What’d I Say; Blue Seven; Senor Blues; Hallelujah I Love Her So; C Jam Blues; Eddie’s Blues; Moanin’; Mamacita. Daniel ...

Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to the bassoon. In the liner notes for her new CD, scheduled for release Jan. 31, the Milwaukee Symphony's principal bassoonist writes, "Each of the pieces I ...

When Nicole Buetti first picked up the bassoon, it was supposed to be a not-so-secret weapon in woodwind-on-woodwind combat.

Noon Concerts at Trinity Santa Barbara is marking 50 years of bassoon playing with two upcoming concerts, one in Santa Barbara and one in Beverly Hills. 50 Years of Bassoon Music for Bassoon & Strings ...

Kaitlin Baker, of Townsend, will present a bassoon recital on June 9, at 3 p.m. at the Lawrence Library, 15 Main St., Pepperell. Admission is free. She will be joined by John Clark on piano and Joy ...

FRANK ZAPPA once wrote, “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma -- like the days when everything used to sound like that.... It’s a great noise -- nothing else makes ...

The local electric bassoon ensemble — perhaps the world's only electric bassoon ensemble — began as a joke. Matt Gutwein mused about his teenage hobby of playing bassoon, the double-reed woodwind ...