The bassoon has never gotten the attention it deserves from composers—despite its historical prestige as one of the earliest woodwind instruments to become a regular member of the orchestra and its ...

Someone is playing a pithy blues melody in what sounds like a distorted, Jack Bruce bass-lead style, so dense that the floor is shuddering, along with your innards. It’s not a bass. It’s a bassoon — ...

The local electric bassoon ensemble — perhaps the world's only electric bassoon ensemble — began as a joke. Matt Gutwein mused about his teenage hobby of playing bassoon, the double-reed woodwind ...