HAPPY BASSOONING
Great gift for bassoonists. Holiday CD SPECIAL! BASSOON BROTHERS ESCAPED only $11.00 at CD Baby. If you haven't heard our recordings, have a quick listen to excepts from ESCAPED at CD Baby. Also check out our CDs WANTED and CAPTURED. Website package price 4 for the price of 3. Hurry.
Hells Angels: The Bassoon Brothers' publicity photo for their performance of Michael Daugherty's Hells Angels with the Oregon Symphony.
We're feeling responsible for....the BASSOONIST SPRING. Through our 3 quartet recordings Wanted, Captured and Escaped, and our musical derangements we've inspired new generations of bassoonists throughout the world to take up the belching bedpost. We hope you'll seek out the many wonderfully creative bassoon quartets posting on YouTube who dress up and have fun with bountiful bassoon bonding found in these varied chamber ensembles. Some dress up their bassoons with Christmas tree lighting or the Breaking Winds 4 Lady Gagas with wigs or skits with their favorite movie characters. Dorothy, you are pretty cute and really way Over the Rainbow. What fun. Keep the B.S. coming.
Bassoonists are finally getting recognition for the great versatility found in BASSOONERY. Our bundle of sticks is no longer just a farting bedpost or clown of the orchestra, but the CROWN of the orchestra. But we can be flatulent and funny if we want to be and much more.
Within this website you'll find more bassoon trivia, helpful hints and B.S. than any bassoon website. If you think we've missed something important, please let us know. We can be slow to make additions, but check back to see what we've found from you.
Who was the first jazz recorded jazz bassoonist? New information on the history of jazz bassoon has been added recently.
The Bassoon Brothers 2011
BBs QUARTET ARRANGEMENT NOW PUBLISHED
21 Bassoon Brothers quartet arrangements are now available in sheet music form. The newly published "derangements" are derived from the Bros CDs Wanted, Escaped, and Bassoon Brothers Escaped with the addition of a few unrecorded pieces. Each piece purchased comes with parts and score. These are available online NOW at Forrests Music or Trevco. See what's available on our Publications page.
A GREAT NEW REVIEW OF THE BASSOON BROTHERS ESCAPED CD!
"If you enjoyed the tom-foolery and the fun and games of the previous Bassoon Brothers CDs...then you will be thrilled with the latest and craziest edition...this has to be my favorite. The combination of crazy and the sublime is, to me, a perfect personification of the crazy and sublime world of the bassoonist." Ron Klimko, International Double Reed Society, Bassoon Recording Reviews, Vol. 31 No. 2.
BUY THE NEW BASSOON BROTHERS ESCAPED CD NOW or listen to tracks online at CD Baby.
They're already saying it's our best yet, a magical mystery tour for bassoon quartet.
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Download a free Bassoon Brothers low down ringtone and wallpaper
Escaped features a variety of music including fellow bassoonists PDQ Bach's Lip My Reeds and Ode to a Toad by Ray Pizzi. There are solo leads on the sopranoon, tenoroon, bassoon and contrabassoon on tunes made famous by Gilbert & Sullivan. There's big band bassoon and surfer rock electric wah wah bassoon on Misirlou and a beautiful rendition of Brian Wilson's Surfer Girl. Walk the Line in tribute to Johnny Cash with some low down bassooning on Ring of Fire and Folsom Prison Blues and blue grass too. Of course we do some baroque and classical styling with music of Vivaldi, Bach and Grieg and a 'oon consort with the whole family on a Renaissance tune.
Join us for some fun with our talented accomplices. We've Escaped with more stolen goods. Our CDs also availble here: Forrests Music, Charles Double Reeds and Midwest Musical Imports
WELCOME to the new Bassoon Brothers website. We hope you find things here that are entertaining, educational and inspiring. If you need help with a bassoon related question or have an addition for our bassoon trivia, please contact us. Check back often.
WHO ARE THE BASSOON BROTHERS?
The Bassoon Brothers is a quartet composed of members from the Oregon Symphony bassoon section. Despite its questionable beginning (rumor has it the group came into existence fully-formed late one Halloween night) and consistent inability to hold any respect whatsoever for established musical boundaries, the Bassoon Brothers have managed to release three quartet recordings Wanted, Captured, and Bassoon Brothers Escaped and are featured performing Daugherty's Hells Angels for bassoon quartet and orchestra on American Contrasts with the Oregon Symphony . They regularly commit their musical crimes in front of unsuspecting audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Their criminal behavior began way back in 1985.
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