Bassoon Jazz

Accordionist Henry Penning plays Jazz on the Bassoon.
this piece, "Bassoon and Tenor Madness" was also written by Hank..
Tenor Saxophone- Ben Schmidt Swartz
Piano- Gene Knific
Guitar- Brad Hatfield
Bass- Jordan Richards
Drums- Pete Breithaupt

Introduction- Eric Bowman
Teachers- Tom Knific, Trent Kynaston, Wendy Rose

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• bassoon
• saxophone
• Eric
• Bowman
• Ben
• Schmidt
• Swartz
• Gene
• Knific
• Hank
• AccordioningToHank
• Henry
• Penning

[diminuendo22]

wrong micing on bassoon

[darthmarsalis]

thank you diminuendo for your input

[2nitewepartay]

the bassoon has a great jazz tone

[LoganSheaTeats]

That is awesome I play Tenor and Bassoon at my school and my teacher wont let me do a Jazz Bassoon.... such a shame it would sound so good, this is kinda how I pictured it to sound....

[Littlewhitelephant]

Because the bassoon has such a delicate sound it is important not to cover its play by too many and noisy other instruments ! My taste would pair it with base, bongos / brushed drums and piano or guitar.

[zgrmuffin]

High notes pretty high, though

Yeah, I take it back, he's friggin awesome

[Spectonimous]

Y r so many instruments left out of jazz? Any instrument can b used 4 jazz.

[zgrmuffin]

Psh. I play bassoon in jazz ensemble and I could totally do that

[ericoschmitt]

@2nitewepartay if just the fingerings were not so difficult, it would be a lot more popular. its past the time that someone should make a boehm key system for the basson, similar to flute or sax... i just dont play it because of the fingerings, it wouldnt let me improvise well as i do on the flute (only 15 keys, and i usually use only 11. there is one i nearly never use)

same of the Oboe. it could have flute fingering. even the keyed oboe requires cross fingerings for any note out of D major

[renji928]

@TheLordRejectsGays are you kidding? the bassoon solo was better than the tenor solo!

[Spider2point0]

And they said there was no such thing... xD

Seriously, a great groove you guys have going here; the bassoon fits about as naturally into jazz as any saxophone, if played right.

[jclaussftw]

Proving I was correct, there's a video on here of just that!

[jclaussftw]

I think the bassoon would work awesome on Stan Getz or Paul Desmond-style cool jazz.

[TheLordRejectsGays]

And the kid that says "hi HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA" Little Queer.