{"id":30275,"date":"2015-09-19T08:04:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=30275"},"modified":"2019-08-12T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:16:30","slug":"mark-russo-saxophone-overtones-altissimo-and-growling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/mark-russo-saxophone-overtones-altissimo-and-growling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Russo-Saxophone Overtones, Altissimo and Growling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a great video of Mark Russo demonstrating different concepts on a Cannonball alto and tenor saxophone. \u00a0Mark was one of the first professional saxophone players I ever heard in concert. \u00a0I was in high school and went to the Syracuse Jazz Festival and a group called the Yellowjackets started playing. \u00a0 I had never heard of them but the alto sax player immediately caught my attention. \u00a0That was Mark Russo. I thought &#8220;Wow, this guy is good!&#8221; \u00a0He then went into a solo and my jaw hit the ground. \u00a0I could not believe what I was hearing. \u00a0This guy was playing up in the altissimo range like no one I had ever heard before. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t believe me check out this video he made a few days ago&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30278\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2015\/September\/russo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Besides the Yellowjackets,\u00a0\u00a0Mark Russo has played with\u00a0Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Steve Winwood, Tower of Power, Huey Lewis and the News,\u00a0Richard Marx, Dan Fogelberg, Michael Bolton, Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins and the\u00a0Doobie Brothers among many others&#8230;&#8230;..Talk about a resume!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to Mark Russo and Cannonball saxophones for making this great video for us. \u00a0Now go practice your altissimo range&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mApDI4EW5Ho\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great video of Mark Russo demonstrating different concepts on a Cannonball alto and tenor saxophone. \u00a0Mark was one of the first professional saxophone players I ever heard in concert. \u00a0I was in high school and went to the Syracuse Jazz Festival and a group called the Yellowjackets started playing. \u00a0 I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":30279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[1380,1379,1378,12,1381],"class_list":{"0":"post-30275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jazz-videos","8":"tag-altissimo","9":"tag-growling","10":"tag-mark-russo","11":"tag-saxophone","12":"tag-yellowjackets","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}