Today, I am reviewing “The Rhythm Book-Intermediate Notation and Sight-Reading” by Rory Stuart that is published by Hal Leonard. Rory Stuart has written a great beginning book for those of you who want to understand rhythm and notation in a deeper way that I reviewed the other day. Today I will be writing about his Read More…
The Rhythm Book-Intermediate Notation and Sight-Reading by Rory Stuart Review
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The Rhythm Book-Beginning Notation and Sight-Reading by Rory Stuart Review
February 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today, I am reviewing “The Rhythm Book-Beginning Notation and Sight-Reading” by Rory Stuart that is published by Hal Leonard. Rory Stuart has written a great beginning book (beginning meaning dealing with everything rhythmically up to and including hard eighth note rhythms) for those of you who want to understand rhythm and notation in a deeper Read More…
Michael Brecker International Saxophone Competition
February 7, 2019 by 1 Comment
I was recently informed about this new competition by Brian Plautz and Susan Brecker and thought I would pass on the information here on the site. If you are an aspiring saxophonist between the ages of 16-30, are a citizen of the world (no extraterrestrials) and can burn it up on the saxophone, then this Read More…
Phil Barone Hollywood 8 Tenor Sax Mouthpiece Refaced by MojoBari
January 27, 2019 by 13 Comments
Today, I am reviewing a unique Phil Barone Hollywood 8 tenor saxophone mouthpiece that I had Keith Bradbury (Mojobari) work on for me a number of years ago. I had originally bought this from a sax player who said it was his gigging mouthpiece for a number of years. The bite plate had some deep Read More…
Dexter Gordon Tenor Sax Solo Transcription of You Stepped Out of a Dream
January 23, 2019 by 8 Comments
A couple of months ago I received an email asking me if I could transcribe Dexter Gordon’s solo on “You Stepped Out of a Dream” from the Youtube video below with Dexter Gordon and Oscar Peterson. I clicked on the video and agreed with the person that sent the email that this was an amazing Read More…
The Difference a Neck Can Make: Boston Sax Shop Heritage Alto Saxophone Neck Review
January 17, 2019 by 20 Comments
I have to admit, I usually stay away from anything to do with trying saxophone necks or different brands of saxophones. So much of my time is already consumed with trying so many different saxophone mouthpieces that adding necks and saxophones to the mix is just too overwhelming for me. The reality is that changing Read More…
Danny Walsh Tenor Sax Solo Transcription of Wave
January 16, 2019 by 9 Comments
Here’s another great saxophone solo transcription from a Youtube video that I started working on this morning. This is another great solo from the terrific tenor sax player, Danny Walsh (I’ve already transcribed a couple other solos by him). Danny Walsh is an amazing NYC saxophone player that many people may not know about but is definitely worth Read More…
Corry Bros Mesa Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece Review
January 14, 2019 by 5 Comments
Today I am reviewing a new mouthpiece from Jim and Paul Corry over in the UK. They are the owners of Corry Bros Saxophone Mouthpieces. As happens regularly on my site, someone contacted me and asked if I could review some of the Corry Bros sax mouthpieces. I had never heard of them but after Read More…
Free Chord Tone Cheat Sheet
January 12, 2019 by 3 Comments
Here’s a great tool that I made for my students years ago that I totally forgot about. It’s called the Chord Tone Cheat Sheet. I had a Skype student the other day that said he was looking for something like this on the internet but couldn’t find anything. As he was speaking, I had this Read More…
Saxscape Live Slim Profile Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece Review
January 10, 2019 by 23 Comments
Ken Barry, at Saxscape mouthpieces has been making mouthpiece since before I started my website at neffmusic.com. About 4 years ago, I saw a clip of one of my favorite tenor sax players (Danny Walsh) on Youtube playing a prototype Saxscape “Live” tenor sax mouthpiece and I thought he sounded amazing on it. Here is Read More…
10mFan Showtime Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece Review
December 28, 2018 by 12 Comments
Mark Sepinuck, 10mFan as he is known in the saxophone world, has been producing a line of tenor and alto saxophone mouthpieces for the last six years that have been very popular with saxophone players around the world. I have reviewed some of 10mFan’s tenor sax mouthpiece models in the past such as the Robusto, Read More…
Guardala Mouthpiece Informative Brochures From 1990
December 21, 2018 by 2 Comments
A friend of mine on Facebook, Adrian Chia, posted these pictures of hardcopy Guardala mouthpiece brochures that he received from Dave Guardala in the mail back in 1990. Dave was living in Hicksville NY at the time and working out of his garage from what I have heard. If only I had a time machine…………… Read More…
RPC 110B Red Letter Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece Review
December 21, 2018 by 12 Comments
Today, I am reviewing a RPC 110B tenor saxophone mouthpiece made by Ron Coelho, at RPC mouthpieces. I used to own one of these 110B tenor sax mouthpieces back in the mid 2000’s before I started this website and remember gigging on it for about 6-8 months at the time. I was playing a lot of Read More…
The Michael Brecker Archive at William Paterson University
October 15, 2018 by 5 Comments
Dr. David Demsey at William Paterson University contacted me a few years ago to tell me about the “Living Jazz Archives” that the University was building and how they were adding a Michael Brecker Archive to the already existing archives that they already had. The Living Jazz Archives are: A TEACHING TOOL for William Paterson University Read More…
The Art of Imitation-Michael Brecker on Peep
October 11, 2018 by 14 Comments
Someone on SOTW (Sax on the Web) posted a video this morning of Michael Brecker soloing over his tune Peep from the early 90’s. Peep was a Brecker tune from the album “Now You See It… (Now You Don’t) that blew my mind when it was released in 1990. I was a young Brecker head Read More…
Free Video Lesson on Mastering Altered Pentatonics by Steve Neff
September 21, 2018 by 5 Comments
I decided to offer a free video lesson on my book Mastering Altered Pentatonics for everyone. I have sold many of these books and really want to make sure that everyone is getting the most they can out of them. You can consider this an “overview” lesson on the various pentatonics covered in the book although Read More…
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