The Week in Saxophone: Nov 19, 2010

Your weekly sampling of some of this past week’s saxophone-related news:

Here's a new alternative to the uninspiring tunes often found in the average beginning sax book. This collection of 25 tunes, each with backing and demonstration tracks plus a video tutorial, is the product one of my most significant discoveries in over two decades of working with beginning saxophonists. That is, beginners learn fundamentals much faster by playing the kind of music that attracted them to the horn in the first place.

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🎷 Sax Fundamentals Faster

• A Collaboration Embraces the Sacred and the Saxophone (Jan Garbarek)
• Dave Liebman: Hard Work
• Courtney Pine gets even closer to his roots [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• MUSIC PREVIEW: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe / Maceo Parker a funk lovers dream come true
• The Sunday Conversation: Dave Koz
• Bach is nice, but how about some music actually written for saxophone?
• North American Saxophone Alliance Region 1 Conference [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Ravi Coltrane’s jazz band gets inspired on the spot [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Legendary Saxophonist David Sanborn [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Kenny G on Clive Davis, Blowing for 46 Minutes, and the Future of Music Sales
• Saxophonist ‘Pushing the Envelope’ nightly on stage (Gerald Albright) [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Roscoe Mitchell (Solo Soprano Saxophone)
• Award-Winning Saxophonist in Residence This Week (Gary Smulyan)
• Logan Richardson is the next generation of KC sax star [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]