Jazz Suite is the second album by bassoonist Daniel Smith to be reviewed in these precincts (Smokin' Hot Bassoon Blues was the first). This one is far more agreeable, for at least two reasons: first, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Daniel Smith, who was one of the few bassoonists recording and performing in both Jazz and Classical music, described as the "Gerry Mulligan of The Bassoon", in the world of Jazz and the "Rampal of ...

Unusual instrumentation within jazz is not exactly unusual. A lot of “weird” and unexpected combinations of instruments have been heard, and thankfully so. There are abundant examples of ...

Daniel Smith's "Bassoon and Beyond" Jazz Quartet plays Fri., Sep. 23 & Sat., Sep. 24 at Twins Jazz for 9pm & 11pm sets. The leading pioneer of the bassoon with his many critically acclaimed ...

Few – if any – Australian jazz exports can rival the significance of Errol Buddle, who has died aged 89. The great multi-instrumentalist enjoyed phenomenal success in the US in the 1950s, and was the ...

Daniel Smith is the Elvis Presley of the bassoon. Like the King himself, who took a then-obscure style and turned it into the world’s most popular forms of music, Smith is single-handedly bringing the ...