I have been kinda putting together and taking apart a sax quartet for a while now and this incarnation resulted in two videos being taken during a sight reading session. I’ve been all over the place with the names from ‘the Bis Keys’ to ‘Inspector Gadget, to this group. The players are:

• Soprano Sax – Jeff Miller
• Alto Sax – Scott Dart
• Tenor Sax – Jim Glass
• Baritone Sax – Greg Cagle

The first song is called the ‘Intergalactic Rag’ and the sax quartet piece is arranged by one of my favorite arrangers Paul Coats. It is also known as ‘the Star Wars Bar Song’ by the masses and ‘Creature Cantina’ by the fellow who originally penned the chart, John Williams.

This was kinda nice for a read through and shows real promise. The next piece is an sax quartet arrangement of Billy Joel’s  ‘Just the Way You Are’ by Jeff Miller. There is one obvious bad note in the whole read and that was by yours truly.

I didn’t get a recording of ‘An American in Paris’, one of my favorite sax quartets. But maybe next time.