Editing Bassoon (section)

===Popular music===
[[File:EdmundWayneBassoon.JPG|thumb|The contemporary quintet Edmund Wayne at the [[Treefort Music Fest]]]]
In conjunction with the use of electronic pickups and amplification, the instrument began to be used more somewhat in jazz and rock settings.<ref name=":06"/><ref name="Grove"/> However, the bassoon is still quite rare as a regular member of rock bands. Several 1960s pop music hits feature the bassoon, including "[[The Tears of a Clown]]" by [[The Miracles|Smokey Robinson and the Miracles]] (the bassoonist was Charles R. Sirard<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.idrs.org/resources/whoswho/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=12745 |title="Charles Sirad" at International Double Reed Society |access-date=30 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103841/http://www.idrs.org/resources/whoswho/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=12745 |archive-date=2 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>), "[[Jennifer Juniper]]" by [[Donovan]], "[[The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)|59th Street Bridge Song]]" by [[Harpers Bizarre]], and the oompah bassoon underlying [[The New Vaudeville Band]]'s "[[Winchester Cathedral (song)|Winchester Cathedral]]". From 1974 to 1978, the bassoon was played by [[Lindsay Cooper]] in the British [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde band]] [[Henry Cow]]. The [[Leonard Nimoy]] song "[[The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins]]" features the bassoon. In the 1970s it was played, in the British medieval/[[progressive rock]] band [[Gryphon (band)|Gryphon]], by Brian Gulland, as well as by the American band [[Ambrosia (band)|Ambrosia]], where it was played by drummer Burleigh Drummond. The Belgian [[Rock in Opposition]]-band [[Univers Zero]] is also known for its use of the bassoon.

More recently, [[These New Puritans]]'s 2010 album ''[[Hidden (These New Puritans album)|Hidden]]'' makes heavy use of the instrument throughout; their principal songwriter, Jack Barnett, claimed repeatedly to be "writing a lot of music for bassoon" in the run-up to its recording.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xbd3 Music – Review of These New Puritans – Hidden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240803194021/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xbd3/ |date=3 August 2024 }}. BBC. Retrieved on 2012-05-25.</ref> The rock band [[Better Than Ezra]] took their name from a passage in [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[A Moveable Feast]]'' in which the author comments that listening to an annoyingly talkative person is still "better than Ezra learning how to play the bassoon", referring to [[Ezra Pound]].

British [[psychedelic rock|psychedelic]]/[[progressive rock]] band [[Knifeworld (British rock band)|Knifeworld]] features the bassoon playing of Chloe Herrington, who also plays for [[Experimental music|experimental]] [[Baroque pop|chamber rock]] orchestra [[Chrome Hoof]].

[[Fiona Apple]] featured the bassoon in the opening track of her 2004 album ''[[Extraordinary Machine]]''.

In 2016, the bassoon was featured on the album ''Gang Signs and Prayers'' by UK [[Grime (music genre)|"grime"]] artist [[Stormzy]]. Played by UK bassoonist Louise Watson, the bassoon is heard in the tracks "Cold" and "Mr Skeng" as a complement to the electronic synthesizer bass lines typically found in this genre.