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Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!
By Daniel Smith
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Mr. Kenyatta; Watermelon Man; So Danco Samba; Listen Here; Black Orpheus; Yardbird Suite; Manteca; Korg In; Peace; The Chicken; Come Candela; Mambo From The Dance As The Gym.
Daniel Smith: Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!
by Nicholas F. Mondello
It's about that sound--that down there, frog-like bellowing encountered on cartoon soundtracks, novelty TV commercials, and that marvelously masculine sound heard in the greatest of orchestral and chamber music repertoire. Rarely is the bassoon heard blowing improvisation in the jazz idiom, athough with the works of Daniel Smith, Paul Hanson and others, that's changing.
Daniel Smith: Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!
by Dan Bilawsky
The bassoon seems to be the homebody of the orchestral woodwind family. This double-reed dynamo rarely leaves the confines of the classical world, instead finding contentment in its comfort zone, playing classic works of yore. On the rare occasion that the instrument does wander outside of its safety net to converse in other musical environments, it ...