What instrument is the most unccomen in jazz?

It might be easier to give you a list of the common ones:

Firstly rhythm section - most often piano (or keyboards) and/or guitar, bass (double or electric), drums
Horns - saxophones, trumpet/flugel, trombone

Less often but not uncommon are clarinet (and bass clarinet) and flute.

Vibraphones sound great playing jazz.

For hot club style jazz you will get violins and accordion.

I've also seen tuba and harmonica recently.

I've heard harpsichord and organ substituting for the piano.

Latin jazz has a wide range of percussion instruments.

Tenor horn and/or French horn have been known.

Miles Davis Birth of the Cool recording used a variety of orchestral instruments, don't have the CD to hand to read off exactly what, from memory I think there was a harp.

There are a couple of quite recent CDs I have that use orchestral type string sections.

I once heard a recorder playing jazz, suffice to say I would go out of my way not to hear it again.

I'm sure that isn't an exhaustive list but I would say that any other instrument could get added to the "possibly most uncommon" list.

My favourite is the Oboe & Cello used in the Chico Hamilton Quintet recordings, I forget the players names.

Just remembered Ben Davis plays jazz cello. I've seen him playing with Oriole and with the Ingrid Laubrock quintet - the cello / tenor sax combination is really beautiful.

I'd say the harp? Or has anyone ever heard jazz harp? And the cello?

yeah I would probably say the harp too. I've heard jazz harp but I don't really like it that music. I've never heard jazz cello

Maybe the oboe....and i can't imagen the harp playing jazz either lol!!!!

hi!

i think the most common jazz (bigband) in the past and present are
trumpet
trombone
saxophone
clarinet
bass clarinet

and for band in the past and present are
piano
vocalist
bass
snare drum
saxophone

(are that true??)

i really enjoy listening cello and flute play jazz (really good sound!)

i'm never heard jazz harp (but i think it's good!)

Don't think you can answer this question with certainty : but I'm hard pressed to think of anyone who plays jazz viola. Oboe/bassoon/'cello I can think of examples, but not viola.

My daughter is doing Catwalk from Norton's Micojazz for Grade 4 Oboe and the Pianist found it really strange but not as odd as America on Treble Recorder.

Ooops should say it was the Music/instrument relationship she thought odd not my girls playing

If it's the America from West Side Story you're thinking of notmusimum, I think it'd sound really rather good on a treble recorder. I'd like to have a go at it anyway!

That's the one Barry! It does sound good! It's in Amazing solo's book Howard/Harrison (Boosey Hawkes)Think it's just that people don't normally get to Grade 4 through our Music Service and whilst my other daughter played it for descant their teacher played for them.