Tag: bassoon
Nobel medicine winner says: I owe it all to my bassoon teacher
Who was your most influential teacher, and why? My bassoon teacher, Herbert Tauscher, who taught me that the only way to do something right is to practice and listen and practice and listen, hours, and hours, and hours. full article >
Practice Tip: Accumulative Scale Technique
opening run in Maurice Whitney’s Introduction and Samba Have you ever seen a run like the one above and thought there was no way you could play it cleanly? So instead you just moved your fingers without even bothering looking at the notes, hoping to land on the next quarter note or eighth note at…
More from Paul Hanson
In doing research for my interview with Paul Hanson, I came across his old website, jazzbassoon.com. Though he now has a new website (paulhansonmusic.com), I found some of that content very informative, and worth a reposting. So please enjoy the following musings from Paul. And as an added treat, a live recording of Paul playing…
Interview with jazz bassoonist Paul Hanson
“What the amazing Paul 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.”- Bill Milkowski, Jazztimes, Jazziz When…