excellent, everyone has their own styles of articulating, glissandos, bends, turns etc… which makes the performance easy to identify the sax player, and i wouldn’t dream of changing that.

The only thing i would alter is to shorten the length of your use of vibrato, going too early into a vibrato is making you sound flat, hold each of the notes a bit longer and tail off with a shorter vibrato. Thats only my personal choice, and can be ignored.

No big deal, someone else might discredit what i say, and prefer it unchanged.

It is common in jazz when playing notes of length 2 or more beats, to use vibrato, otherwise the note can come out sounding dull and out of place when notes of shorter duration are being colourfully articulated.

To me using vibrato is like using salt in food, too much salt and all you taste is salt, too little salt and the food tastes bland, the correct amount of salt leaves you enjoying the overall whole food taste.

Performing music is similar to balancing the composition in art paintings, and its quite unintentionally easy to distract the viewer from focusing on the main subject of what you are trying to convey.

I practice in front of a pro once a week, and i get feed back like
‘you need to shorten that note, the phrase doesn’t sound right’,
‘you need to shorten the gap between those two notes, its changing the shape of the phrase’

I can be so focused in the song, about whats coming up next, that i can overlook things, which is why its important to get feedback, or record your practice pieces and listen back to them, nine times out of ten, i don’t like what i hear played back.

Also the mind can play tricks on you – you might not realise it, but your mind can like how the way a phrase is played, and can completely change it from how it should be played.

Overall, you still played a cracking performance!

this has always been a mystical cool draging sax song

Sounds great Dr!