Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

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On BeBop Bassoon he takes his mission a giant step further and ushers his unique sound into the world of modern jazz. With a talent as great as his, it is most assuredly a sound listener's will be ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...