Here’s a great video of Chris Potter and Joe Lovano playing together in NYC. The first two clicks are of the jazz standard Four. The last one is of Bye Bye Blackbird. It’s amazing to see these two masters playing together. You can tell they really enjoy each others playing. Read More…
Killer Kenny Garrett solo with Miles
March 23, 2011 By 3 Comments
Here’s a great video of Kenny Garrett playing a solo on the tune Human Nature. He’s playing with Miles Davis in Paris. I remember getting this video in the early 90′s. I never heard of Kenny Garrett before and this solo blew me away. I must have watched it a thousand times. I would play Read More…
Rich Perry playing the blues……..
January 10, 2011 By 4 Comments
Here’s a great video of Rich Perry playing a blues all by himself. Rich is one of my favorite players. I remember when I first heard him years ago, I really wasn’t that into him. Back then I was into Michael Brecker, Bob Berg and guys like that. I heard musicians Read More…
Frank Wess & Scott Robinson Tenor Saxophone Blues Up and Down
June 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
I’ve been listening to a bunch of different versions of “Blues Up & Down” lately. I love hearing two distinct tenor saxophone players going at it. Some people like to refer to this as a “battle”. They like to talk afterwards about who “won”. To me, those type of people need to grow Read More…
Amazing Charlie Parker Recording of Cherokee
March 29, 2010 By 4 Comments
Back when I was in junior high school I was introduced to the playing of Charlie Parker. It was 9th grade and up to that point all I had listened to was Spyro Gyra, Chuck Mangione, Dave Sanborn and the Yellowjackets. My saxophone teacher told me that if I wanted to be good at jazz Read More…
Great hour long interview with Joshua Redman
March 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a great link to an interview with the great tenor saxophone player Joshua Redman. Joshua has been one of my favorite tenor players since I first heard him in the mid 90′s. I think the first album I bought was “Freedom in the Groove”. Soon after that I bought every one of Joshua Redman’s Read More…
The Ultimate Alto Sax Sound-Jesse Davis
March 3, 2010 By 6 Comments
I love Jesse Davis! I listen to tenor saxophone players about 80% of the time but when I want to listen to an alto saxophone player Jesse Davis is usually my first choice. If you don’t know him check out this video of “The Very Thought of You”…….He has an amazing sound that is huge,fat Read More…
Rick Margitza solo on “Invitation”
February 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
Here is an amazing video of one of my favorite tenor saxophone players. His name is Rick Margitza. I first saw him when I was in high school and I went to the Syracuse Jazz Festival. This was in the early 80′s I believe. Flora Purim came out. I had never heard Read More…
Improvising over “On Green Dolphin Street” Video
November 4, 2009 By 7 Comments
Here’s another video of me playing with that Hal Crook play along. I’m not even sure if this is still out there and published. It’s called “Creative Comping for Improvisation”. I haven’t seen it since the early 90′s. It is such a ball to jam to because the comping is not traditional at all. There Read More…
Improvising over “Beautiful Love” Video
November 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I found this old Hal Crook play along and was jamming to it tonight. He plays some pretty cool changes and chords over the standard Beautiful Love. I use to love playing to these back in college because they would always stretch me out and force me to play outside the box a bit. Here’s Read More…
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