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, ...

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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 ...

The opening concert of the 90th Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival is called “A Little Reed Music,” but it looks more like a lot of reed music – as in oboes and bassoons. The concert at 8:15 p.m.

Composer Jack Elliott was known for his themes for the TV series “Charlie’s Angels,” “Barney Miller” (both written with his longtime partner, Allyn Ferguson) and “Night Court.” But starting in 1979, ...