Jazz-Sax, all things Jazz and Sax
The Hypebot had a link and analysis of an article David Byrne wrote for The Guardian. It is depressing, and really makes me apathetic to the whole “piracy” question. Spotify is obviously NOT paying artists, but rather the “middle man”. “The amounts these services pay per stream is miniscule…The major record labels usually siphon off…
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I have a LOT of music, digital music. I recently pretty much completed scanning all my physical books into PDF. It has been worth it. I can now have them on my iPad, or if I want to copy a page for a student, it is there. Or email a page to them. Boom, its…
We live in a connected age. Duh. There are TONS of websites that have interesting stuff, plus there is YouTube. You could spend ALL DAY just surfing the net and taking in tons of interesting things. And a TON of stuff you could care less about. How do you filter out the stuff and get…
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Checking my daily email, I received this “Pays for itself in reeds saved and lasts forever -Get a new dynamic and smashing sound – Make extremely accurate adjustments -No guessing where to shave -Stop throwing reeds The Perfect Reed kit is a new ground breaking method to condition your reeds to a professional level. White-curvatures…
Ok, not saxophone related, but this is my favorite video game so…….I thought it was great.
You might have noticed, but the Jazz-Sax.com server has been lagging the last couple of months. Why? More traffic and spammers. The site is powered by a little Ubuntu atom processor computer I bought about 5 years ago. It has 2 gigs of ram, and a SSD. It had been running pretty much flawlessly for…
Kinda creepy actually…..
We live in an awesome age. We have little 4 inch devices that are more powerful than computers that were made less than 8 years ago. Now, there is this very interesting instrument, an Artiphon. CNN had an article on it: Is it a guitar? Is it a piano? Nope, it is a crazy iPhone-powered…
Barry Wood has updated his NAMM Oddities page from this year’s NAMM show. NAMM is a trade show that happens around the beginning of the year for music related items. Some saxophone related items are here: Instrument Care Apparel. I guess this appeals to people? I think its a waste of money but whatever… It’s…
I have been a LONG time user of Finale. Since…..geeze, Finale 2 something (I think I have the floppy disks it came on for my Mac Quadra 660AV). Since there seems to be a new influx of life into MakeMusic, it is time to revisit why it is such an awesome program compared to the…
PG Music has released the latest greatest version of Band in a Box for Macintosh. This is one of my favorite programs, hands down. Here are some of the new featuresI like: 31 More Jazz RealTracks, 35 Rock-Pop RealTracks. New Song Form feature. Remembers recent RealTracks that you selected Easy Buttons for Transposing (Display only)…
If you’ve noticed, there have been a lack of new posts lately? “Oh no, he’s losing interest in the site. Where are we going to get our latest Katy Perry sheets?” you might say. Fear not, there are a lot of things in the pipeline. So where have I been? Busy. Actual high paying gigs, working…
These guys killed it. I like it! Not quite as good as this version though.
So, I did a list of thing that you might consider getting for Xmas. But what is on MY list? Well, here it is. First thing is that I always need money. Who doesn’t? Running this site is not free, and the little money made with Google Ads does help with the phone bill, but…
I don’t think I did one last year, but this year I think I am. So…..you have a saxophonist that you want to get a little holiday gift for huh? Well, here are some ideas. Band-in-a-Box – Though they have different versions of this program, you need the version with the Real Tracks. Period. This…