Posts in October 8, 2013

  The vast major­i­ty of peo­ple who have record­ed bas­soon in jazz con­texts have been dou­blers who pri­mar­i­ly play sax­o­phone, such as Illinois Jacquet, Frankie Trumbauer, and Ben Wendel. A very small num­ber of play­ers (Paul Hanson and Michael Rabinowitz are the best known) tru­ly spe­cial­ize in play­ing jazz on the bas­soon. But there is a third cat­e­go­ry as well: orches­tral bas­soon­ists who have occa­sion­al­ly ven­tured into jazz contexts. In 1935, Sol Schoenbach record­ed four tunes by British jazz pianist Reginald Foresythe in a small group that also includ­ed Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. Kenneth Pasmanick, long­time prin­ci­pal bas­soon­ist of […]