Sxpoet: You make a great point—there are LOTS of pieces out there that are simple enough to learn. Johnny is just awesome, he writes his sheet music out in a way that is simplified and really helps in the way of learning these great tunes. Many people tend to think that simple songs are to “easy” to play and just ignore them. Actually, these simple songs can actually magnify our errors! I love the song for Elvis “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. I’ve learned both of them but just haven’t gotten around to uploading them.

Hey Dazza–that post isn’t buried, I responded to it recently. Just click on “Repertoire” and you should see my reply there. I responded to it just a couple of days ago. In terms of your question about playing the solo on Alto Sax, I had actually started working on that while out here in New Mexico because everyone wants to hear it but the problem was that my Tenor is at home. I was simply not going to chance bringing it on the plane and something happen to it. The airlines are not very “courteous” when it comes to treating delicate items with respect….Johnny has said how he has dealt with broken Sax parts and all for this very reason. I was able to put the Alto overhead with me while in my seat, it fit perfectly. The great news is that I’m supposed to be back home in just a little over 1 month (trying not to think about it). Been so busy tending to family that I’ve been doing good just to get a regular, 1 hour practice session in and haven’t had much time to work on the solo to Tequila for Alto. I do have 3 new songs of Johnny’s for Alto Sax finished and will upload then sometime after I get back–they we’re already almost finished before even coming here. I’ll try and transpose the sheet music that I have for the solo on Tenor to Alto for you. Please be patient with me, got a lot happening right now helping family out here.

WOW….thanks Johnny!!! 🙂 “What Does It Take” is one of those songs I think of as a “mega-tune” for the Saxophone, just like Harlem Nocturne is. That term of “Mega-tune” is just my little way of looking at it LOL I only wish I had a lesson for the Tequila solo, even with sheet music and listening to the song it was still tricky and wasn’t by any means perfect when I did it…not with allergies anyway.
If you had to fix the chart for Tequila, does that mean I had learned it wrong? When I played it, nothing felt wrong about it for the Tenor. It’s great that Dazza was able to detect that for the Alto. Here’s the link when I did do it some months ago:

Hey Johnny, in time to come I was wondering if you could look at doing “Walking with Mr. Lee” not necessarily as an online lesson with all the Sax Lines like we’re talking about with these posts, but the backing track/sheet music. I LOVE the way you capture the essence of all these classic songs 🙂 Even 50 to 100 years from now, they’ll still be great songs for the Saxophone.