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Jazz Innovator Ben Wendel Get Us Playing More Creatively
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Jazz Great Mel Martin On Finding “the Best Notes” for Our Solos
Hello again people, I’m assuming that most of you already know about this past Monday’s killin’ interview with Ben Wendel, but in case you don’t, to recap… I’m putting out a three-part series of...
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Virtuoso Jazz Master Ted Nash Simplifies the Process of Learning Jazz
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Putting P. Mauriat’s New Greg Osby Signature Alto to the Test
To date, I have play-tested the P. Mauriat 67R, 76 2ND edition, and the 86 model alto saxophones at various NAMM conventions. Recently, Craig Denny at Saint Louis Music sent me one of the limited...
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These Fun Technical Exercises Will Prepare You For Just About Anything
Technical Exercises in all Keys All players should organize their practice, but that structure should also leave a lot of room for variety and creativity. For most of my students, I recommend they...
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Dissecting Your Scales To Build Your Technique
Image by Ethan Hein Learn your scales. Learn your scales. Learn your scales… We hear it over and over while we’re learning to play music, but often we don’t hear enough about what we can do with those...
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Hints And Tips For Recording Saxophone At Home
Getting a saxophone to sound distinctive and beautiful in the recording studio is considered to be something of an art form that can take many years to perfect. If you are looking to start recording...
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David Liebman Answers Reader Questions – Part 1
Photo by CT Konieczny The Intro David Liebman is a man who needs no introduction to virtually anyone in the saxophone world. But for those of you who need to be introduced, in my estimation, a...
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An Exploration of Powerful and Unusual Saxophone Effects
Maxim Shalygin’s Todos los Todos el Fuego (2019) is a new, nearly 90-minute long work for saxophone octet, inspired by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar. While there have been other original works...
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Exercises and Sequences for Overcoming Fear of “Coltrane Changes” Once and...
Photograph in image by Hugo van Gelderen (Anefo) / CC0 As 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of John Coltrane’s initial recording of “Giant Steps” (March, 1959 for the Atlantic record label), it seems...
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