{"id":83442,"date":"2020-01-10T13:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=83442"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:01:33","slug":"joel-frahm-monster-tenor-sax-lick-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/joel-frahm-monster-tenor-sax-lick-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Frahm Monster Lick of the Day #3 Tenor Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a killer Joel Frahm lick that I picked up off of a Facebook video below. Joel is trying out a TT tenor saxophone mouthpiece that he sounds terrific on (he hasn&#8217;t even taken off his winter hat or coat which cracks me up&#8230;..like he just walked in off the street).\u00a0 At the :08 mark he plays a fast lick that I immediately transcribed in my mind (Just joking, but I did run up to my office and take about 1\/2 an hour to transcribe it immediately after hearing it&#8230;&#8230;..).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Joel-Frahm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13856 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Joel-Frahm.png\" alt=\"Frahm\" width=\"322\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Joel Frahm\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you don&#8217;t know of Joel Frahm, here is a short bio from Joel&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<p id=\"line1\"><span id=\"line38\"><\/span> &#8220;<span id=\"line39\"><\/span><em>Joel Frahm&#8217;s May 1st release, We Used to Dance, places him in the company of master musicians Kenny Barron (piano), Rufus Reid (bass), and Victor Lewis (drums).\u00a0 Frahm more than holds his own in showing both the chops and lyricism that has made him an irreplaceable part of so many sessions in his two decades on the jazz scene.<span class=\"entity\"> \u00a0<\/span> <span id=\"line40\"><\/span> <span id=\"line41\"><\/span>Surrounded by jazz legends, Frahm makes this recording a true \u201ccoming out party\u201d for his maturing artistry. It is his most ambitious CD to date,\u00a0 featuring six of his original compositions that come to life in beautiful and variegated ways in the hands of this remarkable band. \u201cIt was an honor and a watershed experience to make this record with these incredible musicians\u201d he says. <span id=\"line42\"><\/span>Having made a name for himself through his associations with singer Jane Monheit and boyhood friend,\u00a0 pianist Brad Mehldau,\u00a0 Frahm hones his own voice on this breakout recording. Joel has also worked with a vast array of musical peers and jazz legends including Maynard Ferguson, Betty Carter, Matt Wilson, Larry Goldings, Dewey Redman, Lee Konitz, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Andrew Hill, Ben Allison, Pat Martino, Ingrid Jensen, Dena Derose, The Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Kyle Eastwood and many others. <span id=\"line43\"><\/span>Born in Racine, WI in 1969, Frahm attended the Mason Gross School for the Arts and earned his B.A. in Jazz Performance at Manhattan School of Music. He released three highly regarded CDs on Palmetto: The Navigator, Don&#8217;t Explain (with Mehldau), and Sorry No Decaf. Don\u2019t Explain, his latest, was the number one jazz release for radio play in the United States for two consecutive weeks in 2004, according to jazzweek.com airplay chart and also reached number one on college radio for one week, according to College Music Journal\u2019s airplay chart.\u00a0 Joel was also recently selected in DownBeat Magazine\u2019s Critics Poll as a Rising Star in the category of tenor saxophone.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you like Joel Frahm&#8217;s playing, make sure you check out <a href=\"http:\/\/joelfrahm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel&#8217;s recordings<\/a>!\u00a0 I have most of them and they are terrific!\u00a0 Thanks to Joel Frahm for being a continual inspiration to the saxophone world!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Joel Frahm Lick.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Frahm Monster Lick of the Day #3-Bb PDF<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Joel_Frahm_Lick_Concert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Frahm Monster Lick of the Day #3-Concert PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px; background-color: #f0b646; line-height: 1.4;\"><em>*If you would like to support me here at neffmusic.com, you can do so\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product-category\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support page of my store<\/a> by debit or credit card. \u00a0 Any support is appreciated and will go towards keeping this site running, saxophone reeds, mouthpiece patches, coffee, and towards justifying the many hours I spend on providing free transcriptions to the saxophone community!\u00a0 Thanks,\u00a0 \u00a0Steve<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-83442-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/FrahmLick.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/FrahmLick.mp3\">https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/FrahmLick.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong>Isolated Joel Frahm Monster Lick of the Day mp3<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-83442-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/JoelFrahm.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/JoelFrahm.mp4\">https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/JoelFrahm.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Joel Frahm Trying a TT Tenor Mouthpiece (Lick starts at :08-:15)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you like these type of outside modern sounding lines like I do, be sure to check out my Devastating Lines for Jazz and Funk Soloing for Minor and Dominant Grooves. These two books are filled with great modern 16th note lines in all 12 keys that you can learn and use while soloing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/devastating-minor-lines-for-jazz-and-funk-soloing\/#reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out all the 5 star reviews!<\/a> Steve<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/devastating-minor-lines-for-jazz-and-funk-soloing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15910\" src=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2021\/DevastatingFrontCoverAd.jpg\" alt=\"DevastatingFrontCoverAd\" width=\"258\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/devastating-minor-lines-for-jazz-and-funk-soloing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devastating Minor Lines for Jazz and Funk Soloing<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/devastating-dominant-lines-for-jazz-and-funk-soloing-digital-pdf-book\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15910\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2021\/DevastatingDominantAd.jpg\" alt=\"DevastatingDominantAd\" width=\"258\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/devastating-dominant-lines-for-jazz-and-funk-soloing-digital-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devastating Dominant Lines for Jazz &amp; Funk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a killer Joel Frahm lick that I picked up off of a Facebook video below. Joel is trying out a TT tenor saxophone mouthpiece that he sounds terrific on (he hasn&#8217;t even taken off his winter hat or coat which cracks me up&#8230;..like he just walked in off the street).\u00a0 At the :08 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":83445,"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":[22],"tags":[1927,716,1111,1926,265,71,1928],"class_list":{"0":"post-83442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-altered-line","9":"tag-jazz-sax","10":"tag-joel-frahm","11":"tag-lick","12":"tag-tenor-saxophone","13":"tag-transcription","14":"tag-tt-tenor-mouthpiece","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83442","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=83442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}