I posted this to Facebook and it became viral amongst my musician friends. It is amazing on many levels, not the least that four soprano saxes could play in tune together.
It was very interesting to me because I am struggling with the soprano sax on three Holst charts from his planet series. The Venus chart as a sop sax solo that has me pulling my hair and I almost gave it to Suzy to play on clarinet, but I’m going to give it one more week to see if I can’t get it in tune.
It pisses me off to see this kind of lame humor based unfair characterizations of the male condition. I mean really, do you think we really are that shallow? You see these broad brush indictments everywhere. xkcd you could have done better, much better. Sigh…
Seriously, how did she read my mind?
It’s the Saxofollia group again. The joy they bring to their performance tickles me. Stupid hats, bring them on me sez. Comic routine; why not. Stellar saxophone musicians each, these fellows are both fun to watch and listen to. Reminds me of the Nuclear Whales.
I sent this clip to my sax quartet with a recommendation that we look into this. I’m guessing they’d run kicking and screaming from the group if I moved to the slapstick mode.
This was probably my favorite Super Bowl commercial… The way that kid can still convey his expressions through the mask is priceless! (Not to mention that Darth Vader’s theme by John Williams is probably one of the most recognized movie themes of all time!) ~ Ingrid DuMosch DeHaan
Meet Saori Yano, saxophonist extraordinaire. I can help but wonder if this is what you get if insist upon your child puttin’ in the shed time? With the silly outburst of Amy Chua’s book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, mostly by white parents btw, I am reminded of the time that I hear one of my siblings complain about the parents not forcing the piano lessons.
You can find her albums on Amazon here. But there are quite a few videos of her performances on YouTube too. CHeck this one out:
As many have said, is the Charlie Parker reincarnated as a pretty, teenage Japanese girl? No matter how she got there, she really has some jazz chops.
This is photographer Emil Schildt’s work and one of my favs. It just makes me titter.
Kenny G lives! The latest spotting…
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I know so many players who became a sax player because of this man. I also know that if you use any of his songs for your first transcription, you will find it relatively easy to do because of the key signatures he has used on many of this songs.
From Wikipedia we discover that he has many interests:
Kenny G is married to Lyndie Benson, with whom he has two sons, Max (age 16) and Noah (age 11).
He frequently plays golf and had a handicap index of +0.6. He has participated in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tournament seven times as of 2007 and teamed with Phil Mickelson to share the AT&T pro-am title in 2001 with the team of Tiger Woods and Jerry Chang. In the Golf Digest rankings of Top 100 in Music, according to golf handicap indexes of major musicians, he was first in 2006 and second in 2008.
Kenny G is an aircraft pilot and has a De Havilland Beaver seaplane that he flies regularly. He is also one of the original investors in the Starbucks coffee house chain.
Performer, teacher, and all around good guy Greg Vail posts a video this week from NAMM 2011: Bass and Contrabass Sax at NAMM 2011.
The acronym NAMM originally stood for the National Association of Music Merchants, but has evolved from a national entity representing the interests of music products retailers to an international association including both commercial, reseller members, affiliates and manufacturers. Therefore, the long form of the name is no longer used, and it is simply known as NAMM, the International Music Products Association.
For you sax gear heads out there some more video goodness featuring more sax oddities.
Straight Saxes, Straight Tenor Sax and Straight Alto Sax from NAMM 2011
JodyJazz & Steve Goodson: NAMM 2011
Cannonball Musical Instruments @ NAMM 2011
Bob Reynolds playing All The Things you are with P.Mauriat saxophone at NAMM 2011
What a blast it must be to attend the conference. Here is a taste of the night life with our friend Dave Koz:
The Microsoft Jazz Band regales the dances and audience at the Third Place Commons on Seattle’s eastside. Soloist extraordinaire Kress Franzen finesses the hell outta his sweet trombone solo. The band is directed by Ray Guyll.
Suzy created the way cool stand fronts, this being version three. Visit our Facebook page and join up for notices of upcoming gigs…
Quinn the Eskimo Vintage Horns
The Bis Key Chronicles 