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Blog Post Amazing Saxophone Solo by admin
I don't usually blog, but since I was checking something, I thought why not share this amazing performance.
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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 ...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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 ...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post Gladys Knight and the Pips by Doris
I started this morning our browsing the web and was lucky enough to run into this great MP3 By Gladys Knight and the Pips , Which I found on Funky16 Corners. Larry, The author of Funky 16 was...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post This Week in the Jazzsphere by Doris
Jeffrey from Straight No Chaser reviews Project Grand Slams debut CD calling a la solid double rather than grand slam. Their music is above-average jazz-funk-fusion, utilizing a very solid ...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post Tanya Tagaq Gillis by Doris
Usually, and as a Rule I keep this Blog to Jazz music. I listen to all kinds of music and I believe that boxing everything and chosing your favorite box and sticking to that is a little limiting, kee...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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 ...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post A Little History by Doris
How cool is it to have a musical instrument named after you? Adolphe Sax that invented the first Saxophone was a Belgian manufacturer and he first showed it to the world at the 1841 Brussels ex...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post Seamus Blake in Rochester by Doris
Seamus Blake will be performing at Exodus to Jazz with his Quartet featuring pianist David Kikoski on Friday, October 17, 2008 at The Clarion Riverside Hotel,Rochester, as part of Exodus To Jaz...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post Meet Nina Wall by Doris
Nina Wall has a wonderful warm voice that gives you shivers down you back when you first start listening to her singing, similar to what happens when listening to Nora Jones. Nina was born in Lon...
Blog Post 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...
Blog Post 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 ...
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