Danceable Swing Basoon?

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Shanabanana · #1 Post by **Shanabanana** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 11:07 am

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?

Ron · #2 Post by **Ron** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:25 pm

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

Shanabanana · #3 Post by **Shanabanana** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:12 pm

I WIN!

Lorenzo1950 · #4 Post by **Lorenzo1950** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:35 pm

Maybe you should try to seek out a Rufus Hartley album. He was a jazz player who played bagpipes. Some of it was interesting.

djstarr · #5 Post by **djstarr** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 8:04 pm

I always thought Peter and the Wolf was danceable

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 ... _sadie.mp3

SpuzBal · #6 Post by **SpuzBal** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 3:10 am

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

Ron · #7 Post by **Ron** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:08 pm

djstarr wrote: 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 ... _sadie.mp3

OK, that is amazing. An actual decent version of Sister Sadie in Bassoon!

djstarr · #8 Post by **djstarr** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 3:38 pm

Ron wrote:
djstarr wrote: 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 ... _sadie.mp3
OK, that is amazing. An actual decent version of Sister Sadie in Bassoon!

What I liked the best was that each of the bassoonists was playing like they were holding a big bari sax.......I got a good laugh last night looking at their "jazz attitudes". I bet they have an embrochure of steel if they are swinging it around when they play (nerdy note here for non-reed players; bassoon is a double reed meaning no mouthpiece like on a sax that you can sink your teeth into and get a good grip).