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Nutshell 2015
by Ian Patterson
Nutshell 2015 Bergen, Norway May 27-30, 2015 For a decade now, Nutshell has been an important engine in promoting Norwegian jazz talent abroad. This year, Nutshell's four-day program presented nine acts of quite diverse stripes to an audience of festival directors, radio programmers, booking agents and journalists from fifteen European countries.
Joel Harrison 5 at Gigspace Performance Studio
by John Kelman
Joel Harrison 5 Gigspace Performance Studio Ottawa, Canada March 1, 2014 Tucked at the end of a small strip mall in an unlikely location, Gigspace Performance Studio has, since opening in the fall of 2011, garnered a reputation as an intimate performance space where magic often happens. A not-for-profit 46-seat venue, ...
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.
Frolic in the Land of Plenty
By Paul Hanson
Label: Abstract Logix
Released: 2008
Track listing: Flight of the Fly; Parallax; Emerald Mile; Dark Soul; Frolic in the Land of Plenty; Goog Troup; Subtle Demons; Scrool; Sacred Love.
Bassoonist Paul Hanson Releases New Album Featuring Dennis Chambers
2008 Release from amazing bassoonist Paul Hanson. What the unbelievable Hanson does on bassoon -- an exceedingly difficult instrument to play and one almost exclusively associated with classical music -- is akin to what other innovators like guitarists Charlie Hunter and Stanley Jordan, banjoist Bela Fleck and bassist Jaco Pastorius have done with their respective instruments. ...
Paul Hanson: Frolic in the Land of Plenty
by Ian Patterson
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.
