{"id":502,"date":"2009-08-13T18:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T17:27:40","slug":"live-jon-van-wie-otto-link-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/live-jon-van-wie-otto-link-8\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Live&#8221; Jon Van Wie Otto Link 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Jon Van Wie refaced Super Tone Master Link is the tenor sax mouthpiece that I have played the most over the last 10 years. Jon Van Wie was an incredible mouthpiece refacer (sad to say that he died a number of years ago).\u00a0 I had the good fortune to have him work on a few of my mouthpieces before he died.\u00a0 I actually had him work on a metal link 7* that turned out to be too bright for me.\u00a0 I saw this metal Otto Link 8 on Ebay and snatched it up as fast as I could. This 8 plays with the perfect balance of highs and lows. Jon would reface the mouthpiece but then put this magical baffle into it that made a dull dead link come alive. To this day I haven&#8217;t met anyone that can make a baffle like Jon did. The magical thing about this mouthpiece is that you can play a jazz standard on it and sound great and immediately go into a\u00a0 &#8220;Respect&#8221; solo and sound equally as great. Here&#8217;s a sax solo on &#8220;Respect&#8221;and &#8220;I&#8217;m Coming Out&#8221; . It&#8217;s a little rough and not the best recording but you get an idea how the JVW metal link handles in those type of &#8220;live&#8221; situations. This is my go to gig mouthpiece when I have to play a multitude of styles.\u00a0 Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/jon-van-wies-words-on-mouthpiece-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> where I posted some of Jon Van Wie&#8217;s thoughts on his mouthpiece work.<\/p>\n<p>Respect Solo<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-502-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Respect%20Solo.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Respect%20Solo.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Respect%20Solo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I&#8217;m Coming Out Solo<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-502-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Im%20Coming%20Out.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Im%20Coming%20Out.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Im%20Coming%20Out.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Jon Van Wie refaced Super Tone Master Link is the tenor sax mouthpiece that I have played the most over the last 10 years. Jon Van Wie was an incredible mouthpiece refacer (sad to say that he died a number of years ago).\u00a0 I had the good fortune to have him work on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14312,"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":[102,1119,45],"tags":[169,156,157,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-live-recording-clips","8":"category-tenor-high-baffle-reviews","9":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","10":"tag-jon-van-wie","11":"tag-otto-link","12":"tag-reface","13":"tag-tenor-mouthpiece","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}