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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:07 am Post subject: Danceable Swing Basoon?

Illinois Jacquet does a bassoon number on the Black and Blue album. It's nominally danceable, but I'm interested in finding some more danceable bassoon stuff for a basoon playing dancer friend of mine. Anything interesting out there?

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 11:25 am Post subject:

OK, Shana, that wins the most obscure swing DJ question of the month award....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject:

I WIN!

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 2:35 pm Post subject:

Maybe you should try to seek out a Rufus Hartley album. He was a jazz player who played bagpipes. Some of it was interesting.
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject:

I always thought Peter and the Wolf was danceable Wink

I've never heard of a jazz bassoonist before, but believing in the power of google here are some hits I got on "jazz bassoonist"

http://www.jazzbassoonist.com/ - Michael Rabinowitz - sounds good on the samples, and there is a "Celebrating Sinatra" CD he did.
http://www.jazzbassoon.com/ - Paul Hanson - more funk/electronica but sounds cool

but I think the winner is:
http://www.danielsmithbassoon.com - with a CD called "Bebop Bassoon" - here's a track: http://www.danielsmithbassoon.com/music_clips/sister_sadie.mp3

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:10 am Post subject:

There's a 1929 Joe Venuti recording called "Running Ragged (Bamboozlin' the Bassoon)" that has Frankie Trumbauer on bassoon.
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