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This is the first post I read of Jon Van Wie’s. This was on one of the google forums back in the late 90′s. I never heard of the guy or his work but reading this post you can sense the love, passion and focus he had for his work. Soon after this I sent Read More…
About 6 months ago I had a new member to my site named Les Silver. Les signed up for online lessons and we exchanged quite a few emails and phone calls talking about my lessons and in our conversations he told me about his saxophone line that he has been developing over the last few Read More…
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The other day one of my students said he wanted to get out of the house and start gigging and making some money. We’ve been working on standards and jazz improvisation over the last year or so. He asked me if I thought he was ready and we got into a discussion about playing out. Read More…
I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation into different facing curve lengths on my alto and tenor saxophone. On my alto I have been using mouthpieces that were all refaced by Brian Powell to .80 tip openings. These are what I’ve been using:
Florida Hard Rubber Link-20mm facing length
Florida Hard Rubber Link-20.5mm facing length
Modern Meyer-21mm facing Read More…
i did a lesson on Sax intonation where I talked about charting your intonation tendencies of your sax by using a tuner. What you do is play naturally for a few seconds and then end on the target note and while holding it turn and look at the tuner. put a mark on the graph Read More…
I found this posted on Dave Valdez’s blog. It’s so great I wanted to post it here. It’s really amazing to watch. It’s a video of Coltrane’s Giant Steps Solo transcription being put on the page as the recording is playing. There is something about watching it that is amazing. you’re hearing Coltrane play a Read More…
I’m always finding great videos on Youtube. I wish this was around when I was a kid. You can find almost everybody on there. Amazing!!
1.Some Classic Michael Brecker
2.Rick Margitza with a great sound..
3.Some Beautiful Pete Christlieb
4.Joshua Redman-Straight Ahead!
5.Sal Nistico burning on Sister Sadie
Best Youtube Videosunrated0Saxophone StuffBest Youtube VideosI’m always finding great videos on Youtube. I Read More…
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