This year’s Fifth Annual Bassoon Ensemble Concert, “Rock-n-Roll Retrospective,” rocked the Nightingale Concert Hall Tuesday evening, Feb. 17 The University of Nevada, Reno musicians played to their ...

Composer Jeff Scott. Courtesy of Jeff Scott's Instagram. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the ...

Bassoon fills are short, expressive musical interjections played on the lower-register of the bassoon. They thrive on the instrument’s unique tonal palette—a blend of warm, resonant warmth and a ...

If you’d asked me a few days ago, I would have said, “In fact, there is no such thing as a great jazz bassoonist.” No one today, I would have said, is meaningfully and beautifully playing the bassoon ...

A slow‑to‑midtempo motif played on a classic bassoon offers an uncanny blend of woodwind warmth and rhythmic motion. When the notes are punctuated by a subtle tape‑like delay, the resonant low ...

The bassoon sounds more than a little like Rollins' saxophone in places and at times even resembles the tenor titan's distinctive speaking voice a bit. Smith swings the song mightily, playing with a ...