Woodwinds: Saxes are NOT the only woodwind instruments!

[Pinecone Inferno]

I've actually heard jazz oboe before at my summer camp. It was interesting, but not in a bad way.

And in Woody Herman's "Pavane," there's jazz clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, AND bassoon heart  

[DarknessIsRape]

We have flutes in my jazz band and a clarinet we sound so awesome. but my friend's jazz instructor says flutes and clarinets can't play jazz  

[Mischieva]

There's this one High School that's right next to my middle school.
They have awsome Jazz Bands and their B band plays this awsome song where there's this guy playing the clarinet so high and stuff it looks like his head is about to expload!!!
lol  

[Everlasting Radiance]

Jazz bassoon rocks.

I've only heard very little of that. sad

I do like Benny Goodman, definiitely.  

[La Adelita]

I love jazz clarinets and wish my director would let some in

but I've never heard a jazz flute before

 

[Paine_Lovely128]

290Pika

Flute is awesome in jazz. I love it so. <3

Clarinets are pretty cool when appropriate, too. n.n

I agree, I play flute and you can go anywhere with it. Clarinet is way too underrated. People should appreciate that instrument alot more.  

[DarknessIsRape]

has anyone ever tried or heard a piccolo in jazz. i think it would be fun to play a picc in band  

[the never ending pixel]

I play the jazz bass clarinet...
it kicks a**!!
I play clarinet, and alto, tenor, and bari sax, but my real love is bass clarinet. (I guess cause i've been playing it forever - 5 years is my forever, lol.)
If you have not heard eric dolphy on bass clarinet, you have not LIVED. XD
you haveta check him out! because jazz + bass clarinet = love, eric dolphy + bass clarinet = love. XD

the ONLY bad thing about being a jazz bass clarinet is that you have to transpose music... a lot. (in school, I'm trombone 1)  

[mdwallin]

King Of Ninjas

Definitely agreed. Clarinet is a really underrated instrument.

CLARINET RAAWWWCKS!
Smooth jazz mate.. smooooooth

Ono-Yamanaka

We have flutes in my jazz band and a clarinet we sound so awesome. but my friend's jazz instructor says flutes and clarinets can't play jazz

That jazz instructor has just turned me into a murderer  

[ClarinetOtakuMai]

Clarinet Jazz artist rock! In our jazz band we got lots of things. The usual like trumpet, trombone, rhythm, piano, and saxes, but we also got flutes, clarinets, baritone(is that normal or not, not sure), and tuba. My BD thinks that any instrument can play jazz.

Some clarinets, Benny Goodmen, Artie Shaw, Sidney Bechet, and Jimmy Dorsey are my favorites. I was wondering if any of you guys have heard of Paquito D'Rivera. He's my favorite Latin jazz clarinetist? I just felt that everywhere I talk about him nobody knows who he is, but he's brilliantly fantastical.  

[shellshocker269]

We have a jazz cornet, and he totally kicks butt at it! Even though he's actually a french horn in class xD We have like five, if I'm not mistaken, flute in jazz. Me being one of them biggrin Though I ought to be playing trumpet, my BD said no cause I didn't play it in class TT-TT ClarinetOtakumai should know what I'm talking about, lol. She's like my favourite clarinet in our jazz band aside from the totally kick butt clarinetist danny XD  

[ClarinetOtakuMai]

JazzMuncher

i play clarinet

if u r into that u should listen to some Paquito D'Rivera.

Eeep! I listen to Paquito! I went to one of his concerts and he bleeew me away!  

[Sakura-H-21]

I play flute and I played a fricken amazing improvized solo in the middle school beginner's jazz band, but they wouldn't let any woodwinds accept saxes into the advanced and there's no flutes in any of the like 5 high school jazz bands. But as for clarinets, there was one time when they had all the sax players in the top jazz band at my high school play clarinet instead of sax.