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		<title>Adam Savage &#8211; How I Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam Savage, of MythBusters, gave an excellent speech to the Maker Faire in May (I think?). Though it applies more to his path, it also applies to us musicians as well. It&#8217;s very interesting.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/09/09/adam-savage-how-i-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Apple Launches Ping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, seems like the new version of iTunes has some social functions now. Though Ping is newly born, some people, like eternal Apple hater Peter Kirn seem to have already written it off. That is a huge mistake. Kirn also has said that the iPad is a failure as well. Heck, he thinks that because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/09/06/apple-launches-ping/</link>
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		<title>Tie Swab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this site which is selling used Silk Neck Ties as swabs. Kind of interesting. Might be a good DIY project. Though I dunno how you&#8217;d cram a tie through an oboe? And silk swabs for clarinet are and saxophone are well under $10.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/08/27/tie-swab/</link>
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		<title>Rico Reeds Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rico Reeds has some really great videos of Walt Weiskopf up explaining one exercise from his book &#8220;Around The Horn&#8221; (which I highly recommend!). They also have some great videos from other artists like Chris Potter, Mel Martin, Ronnie Laws, etc. But then, they have videos from this Shannon Kennedy chick which were&#8230;&#8230;..what? I dunno [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/08/26/rico-reeds-videos/</link>
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		<title>Leon Breeden Dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sad news &#8220;Leon Breeden, the longtime director of jazz studies at the University of North Texas, who half a century ago transformed the program from a clandestine enterprise into the international Mecca for jazz training it remains today, died on Wednesday in Dallas. He was 88.&#8221; My college band got to do a concert with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/08/14/leon-breeden-dies/</link>
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		<title>Your back-up players&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I just wanted to share a link that&#8217;s been helpful to me. http://www.myguitarsolo.com/jazz_comp.htm It contains midi files with a standard IIm &#8211; V7 &#8211; Imaj7 progression (among others), and it circulates through all the scales on the instrument. I think it lasts about 5-10 minutes, and it is a work-out! The greatest thing is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/08/13/your-back-up-players/</link>
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		<title>Wendy&#8217;s Kids Meals Toy &#8211; Saxazoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems Wendy&#8217;s kids menu toy, in conjunction with &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221;, has a Saxazoo instrument with it. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to create a huge demand for playing the real thing though&#8230;.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/28/wendys-kids-meals-toy-saxazoo/</link>
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		<title>Modified EWI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got an old EWI? Yes? Then check this out: &#8220;The META-EWI is a modified EWI (Akai’s Electric Wind Instrument) to which was added a whole new set of controllers based on sensor technologies, specifically eight continuous controllers and 16 digital switches. These clearly succeed at stretching the expressiveness and the range of musical gestures found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/28/modified-ewi/</link>
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		<title>Double Slide Controller&#8230;..why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Developed by composer and researcher Tomás Henriques, the instrument mixes computer music software, sensor technologies and flexible hand/arm gestures to generate rich, complex sounds.&#8221; My question is why? So we can do more Zen type music? Why do all these &#8220;demos&#8221; of new controllers and stuff always have like an atmosphere drone? I would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/24/double-slide-controller-why/</link>
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		<title>iPad Sheet Music Page Changer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Engadget: &#8220;If you carry your sheet music in a laptop, AirTurn&#8217;s got a USB dongle for that, but if you&#8217;ve migrated your musical cues to an certain slate, never fear, Bluetooth is on the way. The AirTurn BT-105 will bring the company&#8217;s page turning technology to iPad, using a transmitter that attaches to standard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/19/ipad-sheet-music-page-changer/</link>
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		<title>Dan Higgins Ripping It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t know who Dan Higgins is, you have heard him&#8230;..in movies, on TV soundtracks, albums, etc. He&#8217;s everywhere. Check him out.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/18/dan-higgins-ripping-it/</link>
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		<title>I Heart Jazz &#8211; Allen Mezquida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kind cool. Some bad language in it]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/15/i-heart-jazz-allen-mezquida/</link>
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		<title>Eubanks Global Citizen Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Václav Greif just finished transcribing a Dave Holland Quintet song, Eubanks Global Citizen theme off the album Not For Nothin&#8217;. No transcribed solos, just the chart. Good stuff. Check it out.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/14/eubanks-global-citizen-theme/</link>
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		<title>Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 &#8211; Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PGMusic just released Band In A Box 2010.5 for the Mac. Improvements? Yes, several. Here are a few that I think are noteworthy: Styles can now be made that are set to use Half-Time and Double-Time RealTracks. For example, you can make a Jazz Ballad style (tempo 65) that uses a Sax Soloist at tempo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/11/band-in-a-box-2010-5-mac/</link>
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		<title>The Search for Nirvana &#8211; A Perfect Mouthpiece!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Liebman has an article up by Tom Alexander (with Dave Liebman) about searching for the perfect mouthpiece. On a cursory reading of this, one might take away that Links are the key to unlock your inner saxophone Budda. However, I think the point of the article is that one should pick something not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jazz-sax.com/2010/07/07/the-search-for-nirvana-a-perfect-mouthpiece/</link>
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