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Amazing Saxophone Solo by admin
I don't usually blog, but since I was checking something, I thought why not share this amazing performance.
Self-Introduction - My saxophone story ... by wingchung89
Well, I will dedicate this first blog in introducing myself and give you just some background information about me, and how I come about playing the saxophone. It was a rather sad, crazy yet inspirin...
Lenny Picket's Setup and Horn Brands by Schlacht
This is from my response to a question on the Saxophone People Forum- im in the market for a tenor sax. what is a good brand? should i also get the metal mouthpiece to get that nice sound? ive p...
Alex Han - Up and Coming Alto Sax Player by Schlacht
Alex Han is a young alto sax player that seems to be making a strong entrance into the jazz scene.  He has played with musicians like Marcus Miller. Marcus Miller lays down some funky bass an...
SAXOPHONE : PROS & CONS by Azul
 Before you: buy one sax learn how to play decide to become a saxophonist be aware of the pros and cons of that marvellous, unique but also diabolic musical instrumen...
SAXOPHONE : PROS & CONS (2nd part) by Azul
 Now's the time for the inconvenients of saxophones, an overall look at the things that gives headhaches and stresses me and my colleagues sax players along the several years that w...
Herb Geller - Alive and Kicking by Doris
Herb Geller From Rifftides eighty, Herb Geller is playing alto saxophone even better than when he was a key jazz figure in the 1950s and '60s. He is performing not with...
Pay For Your Music by Doris
I have been thinking recently about how easy it is to get free music. With the amount filesharing and free download music sites there are, its a wonder that the musicians actually make any money at a...
Whoohoo! by Doris
I was going to steer clear from politics, as hard as it may be now, but just couldn't resist posting this video With all our draw backs as a nation now, it is quite impossible to ...
Karrin Allyson by Doris
Photo credit: Creative Commons Licence Karrin Allyson, is, for those of you who are not familiar a 11 time Grammy winning Jazz singer, who sings not only in English but in French and Portug...
Circuit City's Liquidation to Harm Jazz Musicians by Doris
If you are still able to listen the the news, you must have heard that Circuit City, will be closing all of its stores, and thus leaving 34000 employees jobless - this due to the very tough economic ...
Aaron Neville - The Shadow of Your Smile by Doris
There is something about the sweetness in R&B that usually doesn't do it for me, especially when the vocalist is a guy.... each to his own I guess, But sometimes you've just got to sit down and t...
Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings by Doris
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are a soul funk Brooklyn based 10 member band, that are worth looking into. The band is made up of Sharon Jones on vocals Gabriel Roth on bass, Neil Sugarman on sax alo...
Joshua Redman and Elastic Band Live 2003 by Doris
Photo credit creative commons license Joshua Redman who is rare not only in his playing abilities but also in his ethnicity - (Both African American and Jewish American) Is a relatively yo...
Eleanor Rigbey and Krystle Warren by Doris
This is Krystle Warren, the woman and the voice doing Eleanor Rigby. I think she is phenomenal. Anything but boring. you can go over to her page on myspace and here some more of he...
Lost and Found by Doris
Lost and found is the latest release of the British Blues label, of a series of 3 CD's compiled buy Chris Barbar, Who is one of the pivot figures of the British Blues scene if not the founder of ...
Testing by Doris
No More Portland Jazz Festival. by Doris
Sad news indeed and the end of an era. The Portland Jazz festival exists no more. Operations and planning for the 2009 festival scheduled to take place in Febuary were stopped since th...
Miguel Zenon by Doris
Miguel Zenon won an MacArthur Fellowship this year "This young musician and composer is at once reestablishing the artistic, cultural, and social tradition of jazz while creating an entirely ne...
How to Chill out in 5 Easy Steps by Doris
I have to thank The Big Picture for bringing Dexter Gordon back to my mind , along with his great album HomeComing: Live at the Village Vanguard Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard. Dex ...
Johnny Griffin 1928 - 2008 by Doris
Johnny Griffen Died on the 27th of July in his home in the French country side at the age of 80. "I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restra...
Lil Soul Bros by Doris
No doubt this is where Michael Jackson got his moves :-) Curtiss Boone - Lil Soul Bros / Mike Douglass Show 2 I know that this is off topic a bit but how co...
Sonny Rollins and His Dragon by Doris
No one can doubt the fact - musicians, Jazz musician in particular, I think, lives are ruled by music, and the music scene, and it is well know and that in the 40's and 50's a lot of them were commit...
Thoughts On Billy's Band by Doris
Billy's Band doing Tom Waits Blue Valentines Billy's Band just took part in the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Billy's Band are a Jazz Blues quartet out of St. Pete...
Mingus, By Thomas Reichman. by Doris
Mingus, By Thomas Reichman. This is quite a long documentary, just under an hour, but well worth the watch. I found it on Streams of Expression, and David, the author of S...
My first saxophone and beyond by Rafernandez
Recently, the first saxophone I ever owned turned 30. I was 15 in March of 1979 when it arrived brand new from Manny's, the NYC music store. I still play it, although in the last 30 years it has gone...
Test Post by Doris
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Miss a Great Chance to Create a Buzz. Heres How. by Doris
The first I heard about Ornette Coleman's show at New Yorks Town hall was when I read about it here Forty-six years later, Ornette returned to Town Hall, having last stopped by in the late 198...
In Motion by Doris
I went over to Destination out to read up a bit about what I had missed and found this most incredible picture there that I want to share I am assuming it has to do with the CD and movie the...
Modes and Compositions, Notes from listening to Maria Schneider by Schlacht
A while back, I heard Maria Schneider talk at the Reno Jazz Festival. She talked about her inspirations, people she knew, and theoretical aspects. Out of the modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, L...
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