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. It’s not unusual in the Boston area to make 400-500 for a four hour wedding reception gig. The thing about these wedding gigs though is that there is a certain repertoire that most players have to know to a certain degree. Most of the bands I play in don’t have any sort of book. You just show up and they start calling tunes that you are expected to know.<\/p>\n
Here’s a list of my 100 top tunes you should know pretty well before you go out and do a wedding gig. They aren’t listed in any order and you might have some on your list that I might miss but here are the ones I have had to play the most and every working sax player should know:<\/p>\n
100 Top 40 Saxophone Tunes<\/span> 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"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":[50],"tags":[113,114,115,116],"class_list":{"0":"post-68","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-saxophone-stuff","7":"tag-gigging-sax-player","8":"tag-saxophone-repertoire","9":"tag-wedding-gigs","10":"tag-working-sax-player","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAin’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
\nAin\u2019t No Mountain-Diana Ross
\nAt Last-Etta James
\nBad Girls-Donna Summer
\nBest of My Love-The Emotions
\nBlack Cow-Steely Dan
\nBoogie Wonderland-EW&F
\nBrick House-Commodores
\nBrown Eyed Girl-Van Morrison
\nCan\u2019t Get Enough-Barry White
\nCan\u2019t Get Next To You-
\nCelebration-Kool and the Gang
\nChain of Fools-Aretha Franklin
\nCheek to Cheek-Ella Fitzgerald
\nCrazy in Love-Beyonce
\nDancing Queen-ABBA
\nDomino-Van Morrison
\nDon\u2019t Stop-Michael Jackson
\nFly Me To the Moon-Frank Sinatra
\nGet Down On It-Kool and the Gang
\nGet Down Tonight-KC and the Sunshine Band
\nGive It To Me Baby-Rick James
\nGood Times-Chic
\nGot To Be Real-Cheryl Lynn
\nHava Nagila-Jewish
\nHoliday-Madonna
\nHot, Hot, Hot
\nHow Sweet It Is-James Taylor
\nI Feel Good-James Brown
\nI Heard It Thru the Grapevine-Marvin Gaye
\nI Need To Know-Marc Anthony
\nI Want You Back-Jackson 5
\nI Wish-Stevie Wonder
\nI\u2019m Coming Out-Diana Ross
\nIn The Mood-Glenn Miller
\nInto The Mystic-Van Morrison
\nIs This Love-Bob Marley
\nIsn\u2019t She Lovely-Stevie Wonder
\nIt Had To Be You
\nJump, Jive and Wail-Louis Prima
\nJungle Boogie-Kool and the Gang
\nJust The Way You Are-Billy Joel
\nKnock On Wood-Wilson Pickett
\nL.O.V.E.-Frank Sinatra
\nLadies Night-Kool and the Gang
\nLast Dance-Donna Summer
\nLate in the Evening-Paul Simon
\nLet\u2019s Get It On-Marvin Gaye
\nLet\u2019s Groove-EW&F
\nLet\u2019s Stay Together-Al Green
\nMe and Mrs. Jones-Billy Paul
\nMidnight Hour-Wilson Pickett
\nMoondance-Van Morrison
\nMore Today Than Yesterday-Spiral Staircase
\nMustang Sally-Wilson Pickett
\nMy Girl-The Temptations
\nNew York, New York-Frank Sinatra
\nOh What A Night-Four Seasons
\nOutstanding-Gap Band
\nPeg-Steely Dan
\nPlay That Funky Music-Wild Cherry
\nProud Mary-Ike & Tina Turner
\nPYT-Michael Jackson
\nRespect-Aretha Franklin
\nRibbon in the Sky-Stevie Wonder
\nRock With You-Michael Jackson
\nRoute 66-Nat King Cole
\nSeptember-EW&F
\nShake Your Body-Jacksons
\nShake Your Groove-Peaches and Herb
\nShame-Evelyn \u201cChampagne\u201d King
\nShining Star-Manhattans
\nSigned, Sealed Delivered-Stevie Wonder
\nSir Duke-Stevie Wonder
\nSmooth-Santana
\nSon of a Preacher Man-Aretha Franklin
\nSoul Man-Sam & Dave
\nSunrise Sunset-Jewish
\nSuperstition-Stevie Wonder
\nSweet Caroline-Neil Diamond
\nThank You For Letting Me Be Myself
\nThe Way You Look Tonight-Frank Sinatra
\nThink-Aretha Franklin
\nUnforgettable-Nat King Cole
\nUpside Down-Diana Ross
\nWalking On Sunshine-Katrina & The Waves
\nWe Are Family-Sister Sledge
\nWhat a Wonderful World-Louis Armstrong
\nWhat\u2019s Going On-Marvin Gaye
\nWild Nights-Van Morrison
\nYMCA-Village People
\nYou Are The Sunshine-Stevie Wonder
\nYou Should Be Dancing-Bee Gees
\nYour Love is King-Sade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"