The Week in Saxophone: Nov 5, 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

• Jazz legend James Moody battling cancer
• Stars of saxophone to hit Istanbul stage (Lovano, Liebman, Coltrane) [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Branford Marsalis adds mood to Fred Schepisi’s Storm
• The great Gato Barbieri again purrs in Santo Domingo [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Battle lines (Femi Kuti)
• Doug Webb – Midnight (2010, Positone) [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Sax playing leads to NPR
• All About Jazz reviews Scurvy’s Fracture [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Matana Roberts To Play LJF Show And To Release Live Album In Early-2011
• Jeff Coffin Interview
• Trish Clowes: Tangent – review
• Professor’s works to be presented at recital [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]
• Saxophone, Transcription, and the Quadratic Formula
• 2010 Adolphe Sax International Competition
• Update: Saxophone National Anthems (iTunes App) [Sorry(!), but this web page has disappeared since the original publication of this article]