Jazz-Sax, all things Jazz and Sax
Seems every year, we have another “this is THE vintage Meyer copy” mouthpiece. Here is a review of D’Addario’s latest attempt. As an owner of a vintage Meyer Brother’s alto mouthpiece, a 4 that was opened up to a 6 by the late great Jon Van Wie, I have never found a mouthpiece like it….
Here is an arrangement I did of Beulah Witch from the Tribute to Buddy Rich album. Enjoy. Update: I found a mistake in the saxophone parts. Somehow they were missing a bar around letter J. That has been fixed. Also posted an alternate version with two altos instead of Soprano and Alto.
Came across this on Youtube. Lenny is one of my favorite saxophonists. Very interesting lecture. Click article for more parts
There comes a time when you just can’t carry all your stuff to the gig. Your tenor….and soprano…..and flute…..and stands…..and a music stand…..and a microphone stand. It’s a lot of stuff. Then you have to walk a good mile because the parking for the venue sucks balls and you are about a mile from where…
This is freaking amazing. Check out the PDF for the complete details of how they did it. We need to do this for saxophone. Forget EWI…..SABS!!!
If you have never heard Tina Brooks, check him out. A saxophonist who should have been synonymous with names like Joe Henderson, Stanely Turrentine, etc. Here is his story: He was 28 when he made the record, and you might have thought, if you didn’t know better, that he was well on his way to…
PG Music just released an update to one of the best programs out for Apple using musicians….Band in a Box 2014 for Mac What is new? Well, they are touting their “GUI has been redesigned” thing. Here is what it looks like: while it’s a little better than it was, it still has a LOT of…
LeRoi Moore is the sax/woodwind player with Dave Matthews Band. Via IMUG
Go and download this now the scale omnibus. The Scale Omnibus is a FREE book that describes as many as 392 distinct scales in all 12 keys,with synonyms,historical notes,chords over which the scale sounds well,summary tables,and more. It took hours of researching,typing,read-proofing,and double-checking and might easily be the most complete book on this topic.
Bret Pimentel had an interesting post this morning: I give my content away, directly to the reader, for free at my own website, but I retain the copyright. If someone wants to read it, they visit my site or retrieve one of my feeds. I make an astonishingly tiny amount of money from minimal advertising,…
For the Winter 2014 NAMM show, Akai has announced a new EWI. EWI 5000 comes loaded with more than 3GB of top-quality sounds, including traditional horn, brass, woodwind, and string sounds, plus progressive synths, leads, and other non-traditional sounds. EWI 5000 includes 12 touch-sensitive metal keys on its top and an eight-wheel thumb- controlled octave…
I’ve had an iPhone since week 1. In fact, I actually went to the FedEX center to get it since I missed the FedEX guy when they were trying to deliver it. Anyhow, it’s a life changing device as I know most of you know. It also has REPLACED several musical things for me, the…
One of the most popular things on this site is the arrangement I did of Tank!, the opening theme to Cowboy Bebop by Yoko Kanno. I did it about 10 years ago. I recently updated it to make it more “professional” I guess. Gone is the goofy Jazz Font. The drum part has been redone,…
When I did my “going all digital” thing in the effort to make all my books and music digital, I had to make some decisions. The biggest one was books. To scan the books, I had to basically destroy them by cutting the binding and in some cases having to cut them to make them…
So, you have all seen these “Enter to win a free” whatever contests right? About 6 years ago, I won a contest. Pretty cool huh? So since then, I’ve been entering contests. I sadly haven’t won like the Sweetwater Mic contest, nor any of those contests where you get a Presonus Studio Live (totally want…