{"id":4335,"date":"2011-03-10T23:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:03:25","slug":"aizen-jazz-master-7-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/aizen-jazz-master-7-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Aizen Jazz Master 7 Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a new Aizen Jazz Master mouthpiece that I received in the mail last week. It is a 7 tip opening. If you follow my blog regularly, then you might remember that I reviewed the very first limited edition Aizen sax mouthpiece when it first came out a few years ago.\u00a0 Since then, they have been a busy company and came out with a few more models. They now have the NY Jazz, the Jazz Master and the SO mouthpiece.\u00a0 I was curious as how these play compared to my first Aizen I had years ago so I asked to review these.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenJMFront.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/AizenJMFront.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Aizen\u00a0 Jazz Master\u00a0 7 Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the description from the Aizen website about the Jazz Master:<br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8220;A low baffle, medium large chamber and delicately-crafted tip rail, with a lot of buzz. A big, husky, dark sound let&#8217;s call it the ideal in vintage. And with all the playability that you find in today&#8217;s mouthpieces, this is a piece that offers outstanding performance. It has quick response even with a slight amount of air, and the Aizen Jazz Master can hold its own just as well in a modern ensemble setting.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first edition Aizen mouthpiece that I owned a few years ago was great but in the end I sold it because it was too bright for my tastes.\u00a0 I was really curious to play this one since it is advertised as being darker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like all Aizen mouthpieces, it looks great. The rails and tip look terrific and the chamber and baffle are nice and smooth.\u00a0 The tip is perfectly matched to the Java and Woodstone reeds I tried with it. The engraving and Jazz Master logo look pretty cool on it also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As far as sound you can judge for yourself from the recording.\u00a0 My thoughts were that it did indeed have a darker sound to it than my first Aizen or the NY Jazz I just reviewed.\u00a0 If you compare the picture below to the NY Jazz mouthpiece you can see that the baffle is abit lower than the NY Jazz.\u00a0\u00a0 The chamber looks very similar&#8230;&#8230;maybe a little bigger but very close I think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenJMBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/AizenJMBaffle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This mouthpiece wasn&#8217;t has bright as the NY Jazz but it was still pretty loud if I pushed some air through it.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t dark in my opinion but just a bit less bright than the NY Jazz and a tad fatter.\u00a0 It had that same resistance that I liked about the NY Jazz.\u00a0 I talk about it in that review.\u00a0 The resistance gives me something to push against so I can manipulate and shape the sound.\u00a0 The perfect resistance for my tastes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenJMChamber.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/AizenJMChamber.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Aizen Jazz Master 7 Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Give a listen to the sound clip below to hear for yourself what these mouthpieces sound like. The clip jumps from style to style but that is because I had so much fun playing it, that I played for about 6 minutes.\u00a0 I had to cut it down to around 2 minutes so I gave you a bit of the different styles I played.\u00a0 If you are interested in trying one of these visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sax.co.jp\/aizene\/emouthpiece.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aizen&#8217;s website<\/a> at for more information.\u00a0 Thanks again to Aizen for letting me try another great mouthpiece.\u00a0 Please let me know what you think below in the comments&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4335-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenJazzMasterAlto.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenJazzMasterAlto.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenJazzMasterAlto.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new Aizen Jazz Master mouthpiece that I received in the mail last week. It is a 7 tip opening. If you follow my blog regularly, then you might remember that I reviewed the very first limited edition Aizen sax mouthpiece when it first came out a few years ago.\u00a0 Since then, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1124,46],"tags":[147,119,553,239],"class_list":{"0":"post-4335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alto-low-baffle-reviews","8":"category-alto-mouthpieces","9":"tag-aizen","10":"tag-alto-sax","11":"tag-jazz-master","12":"tag-saxophone-mouthpiece","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","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=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}