Tom can play the bassoon very well.

The next few decades saw the instrument used only sporadically, as symphonic jazz fell out of favor, but the 1960s saw artists such as Yusef Lateef and Chick Corea incorporate bassoon into their recordings Lateef's diverse and eclectic instrumentation saw the bassoon as a natural addition, while Corea employed the bassoon in combination with flautist Hubert Laws.

Coming into the 20th century, the Heckel style German model of bassoon dominated the field.

Antonio Cesti included a bassoon in his 1668 opera Il pomo d'oro (The Golden Apple).

Antonio Vivaldi brought the bassoon to prominence by featuring it in 37 concerti for the instrument.

Jazz The bassoon is infrequently used as a jazz instrument and rarely seen in a jazz ensemble.

An alternate view maintains Hotteterre was one of several craftsmen responsible for the development of the early bassoon.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Jupiter symphony is a prime example, with its famous bassoon solos in the first movement.

They are for two clarinets (1918), piano duo (1918), clarinet and bassoon (1922) and horn, trumpet and trombone (1922).

Heckel and two generations of descendants continued to refine the bassoon, and their instruments became the standard, with other makers following.

Compared to the Heckel bassoon, Buffet system bassoons have a narrower bore and simpler mechanism, requiring different fingerings for many notes.

Almenräder's improvements to the bassoon began with an 1823 treatise describing ways of improving intonation, response, and technical ease of playing by augmenting and rearranging the keywork.

Increasing use of the bassoon as a basso continuo instrument meant that it began to be included in opera orchestras, first in France and later in Italy, Germany and England.

Another important use of the bassoon during the Classical era was in the Harmonie , a chamber ensemble consisting of pairs of oboes, horns and bassoons later, two clarinets would be added to form an octet.

While the early history of the Heckel bassoon included a complete overhaul of the instrument in both acoustics and key work, the development of the Buffet system consisted primarily of incremental improvements to the key work.

Bassoonist Karen Borca, a performer of free jazz, is one of the few jazz musicians to play only bassoon Michael Rabinowitz, the Spanish bassoonist Javier Abad, and James Lassen, an American resident in Bergen, Norway, are others.

Beginning in the early Rococo era, composers such as Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Johann Stamitz included parts that exploited the bassoon for its unique color, rather than for its perfunctory ability to double the bass line.

By the mid 18th century, the bassoon's function in the orchestra was still mostly limited to that of a continuo instrument since scores often made no specific mention of the bassoon, its use was implied, particularly if there were parts for oboes or other winds.