Tag: Great Recordings
Gain Instant Inspiration with these 16 Unsung Tenor Heros
Tweet We’re all raised on a steady diet of the tenor greats, of which there are many. So many of the movers and shakers of jazz played this horn, people like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, and Wayne Shorter, continuing into more recent times with people [...]
Category: Best Saxophone Players
11 Tips for Making Your Saxophone Playing More Expressive and Soulful
Tweet The definition of the word, Soul as defined on Dictionary.com: the emotional part of human nature; the seat of the feelings or sentiments. When it comes to music, it’s been my experience that the sound of a human being singing tends to touch the average person’s heart more than any other sound. Because we [...]
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Three Quick Lessons from Three Classic Sax Licks
Tweet This guest post is from world touring keyboard player Steve Nixon. He is the owner of the jazz education website www.freejazzlessons.com. Ok, saxophone players. I have a confession to make right off the bat. Even though I’m a piano player I’ve always had a secret connection to the saxophone. The first time I heard [...]
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9 Classic Saxophone Solos for Transcription Newbies
Tweet This guest post is from saxophone and multi-reed player, composer, recording artist, and educator Sam Sadigursky of SamSadigursky.com One of the best ways of building your ears and learning the jazz vocabulary is to transcribe solos by the masters. It’s one of the few things that, in some form or another, just about every jazz player [...]
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10 Sources of Inspiration for Saxophone Players
Tweet Is that once-burning desire to burn on the horn starting to flicker? Are the hours you used to devote to practicing now in jeopardy of being traded in for hours in front of a TV set and a bag of Ruffles? Or maybe you’re still practicing your tush off, but progressing at a snail’s [...]
Category: Best Saxophone Tips and Techniques
Reviewed: “Chris Potter Plays Acapella Solo Standards” Transcription E-book
Tweet For jazz saxophonists, transcriptions play a vital role in our musical development. Many of us have bought transcriptions books featuring solos by various players such as Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Bob Mintzer, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins to name just a few. Since transcribing is one of the best ways to improve one’s [...]
Category: Saxophone Product Reviews
The Ten Best Saxophone Blowing Sessions Ever
Tweet This guest post is from Sam Sadigursky of SamSadigursky.com Here’s a list of my favorite records that feature multiple saxophonists locking horn-to-horn. By my definition, a blowing session tends to be a minimally written affair, usually featuring the horn players playing over standards and generally minimally rehearsed. As far as I know, most of [...]
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Secrets from the World’s Most Prolific Saxophone Transcriber
Tweet Any devoted jazz saxophone player with an internet connection knows Charles McNeal’s love letter to jazz history, CharlesMcNeal.com. As a Facebook friend of Charles myself, there are periods where he cranks out, literally, a transcription each day. As an equal opportunity transcriber, he’s taken down hundreds of solos from all ends of the jazz [...]
Category: Best of the Blog, Best Saxophone Players, Best Saxophone Tips and Techniques
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