Jazz Articles about Paul Hanson

Paul Hanson: Frolic in the Land of Plenty

by Ian Patterson
March 9, 2008

Frolic and bassoon is not an overly used collocation, but it is an entirely appropriate one in the case of Paul Hanson, whose playing on the bassoon, surely the blackest sheep of jazz instruments, is exuberant, playful, energetic and joyous, and it has to be said quite breathtaking throughout Frolic in the Land of Plenty.On Brazilian mandolinist Jacob do Bandolim's “Flight of the Fly," Caito Marcondes (on pandeiro -- a tambourine-like instrument) acts as a foil for Hanson's ...