Paul Hanson

Paul Hanson

Paul Hanson is an American jazz bassoonist and saxophonist.

He received a bachelor of music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a student of San Francisco Symphony Orchestra principal bassoonist Stephen Paulson.

He has performed with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and numerous other groups. In 2005 and 2006 he toured Latin America with Cirque du Soleil's show "Saltimbanco". He has also toured the United States, Europe, and Japan with artists such as the Swedish bass guitarist Jonas Hellborg, guitarist Joel Harrison, The Klezmorim, Peter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble, the American composer Terry Riley, Afro-pop band Kotoja, and 1980s crooner Eddie Money (as a saxophonist). He will travel to Tokyo, Japan to be part of a new Cirque Du Soleil resident production in summer 2008.

Hanson sometimes uses electronic processing to alter or augment the sound of his bassoon.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Discography

As leader

*2008 - Frolic In the Land of Plenty (to be released March 2008)
*"Voodoo Suite"
*"Astro Boy Blues" (Moo)
*"The Last Romantics"
*"Homecoming" (klezmer and Eastern European duets)

With Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

*2000 - "Outbound"
*2002 - "Live at the Quick"With Jeff Sipe
*2004 - "Timeless"With DAVKA
*2004 - "The Golem"
*2005 - "DAVKA Live"With Zenith Patrol
*2005 - "VU"'With Jonas Hellborg and Jeff Sipe'"
*2005-"Sipe, Hanson and Hellborg"With Billy Childs and Pat Senatore
*1995 - "Pasquale"With Omar Sosa and Oaktown Irawo
*1998 - "Funky Cubonics"With Joel Harrison
*1999 - "Range of Motion"

External links

* [http://www.jazzbassoon.com/ Paul Hanson official site]
* [http://jazzbassoon.blogspot.com/ Paul Hanson page]

Listening

* [http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/hansonp Paul Hanson audio samples]

ee also

*Bassoon#Jazz


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