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@ William–Please be safe! My wife and I are thinking about you guys–please keep us posted.
@ Pete–I’ve never heard of those MPs, where are they made at? Good job on your playing, keep up the great work.

Nice one Peter–good articulation 🙂 I’m glad Sxpoet reposted this because would have never found it. Like Sxpoet was saying, make a separate post for it here in the Member’s videos and then we can find it. I love that song, so glad Johnny is releasing these Timeless Classics too. What Saxophone, MP/reed do you prefer to use? Thanks so much for sharing!

Tried posting a comment here and the computer system didn’t show it up. I was just saying about a year ago I saw a live demo of the Klangbogen and it was pretty amazing. Could definately hear a difference with v.s. without it. The projection/tone was much more focused and bright. It’s said to help stabilize the Sax at the tenon/neck area and from…[Read more]

Good thinking Mel–About 6 months or so ago I had to take similar steps to protect my cane reeds. I live here in the South and the humidity is a constant problem and it can really affect my cane reeds. I started using the D’Addario Reed Storage case that holds humidifier packs and it does an awesome job of protecting my reeds–they stay moist and…[Read more]

I remember reading something along those lines about King Curtis too. I listen to King Curtis all the time and there are songs of his that definately have an Illinois Jacquet type of style to them. I just wish I could have seen those guys live in Concert. About a year ago I spoke to an older gentlemen here whose a guitar player and we were talking…[Read more]

No rush Johnny, take your time 🙂

Illinois Jacquet put out some great, great stuff for sure. I love listening to these guys and try to pick up on the things they do/use that in our own playing. Illinois Jacquet used lots of those 1 note riffs/licks, goes to show that solos don’t have to be complicated to sound great! Big Jay Mcneely used a lot of 1 note licks/riffs too. I was…[Read more]

Very cool William 🙂 Altissimo G is the hardest note in all of Saxophone to play consistently. Alt G# is a pain too LOL Once you get passed those 2 notes then it becomes relatively easy. If you can hear those notes in your head then you can play them. Don’t you just love Johnny’s Altissimo course? 🙂

Never knew King Curtis did a cover of that song. I checked it out; you made the right call there for sure about doing it in Ray Charles’ version, much more ‘groovy’ than King Curtis’ version. It’s not too often that we hear a cover of some song that King Curtis did v.s. someone else did a cover of the same song that was better.…[Read more]

Got the e-mail, thank you William 🙂 Very cool for the Saxophone, would be great on either Alto or Tenor. On the MP3 that you sent me with the Tenor Sax playing, was that you?!? You sound really, really good! Very solid sound–nice, warm, open, clean tone. Great articulation too. Very, very cool.

Hi William–do you have the backing track/sheet music for this upload you did on your Vimeo channel? I’m fluent in Spanish (Castilian Spanish) and I’ll be working on building my repertoire up with Latin music very soon, been so heavy into the blues that I have overlooked Latin music–shame on me. My e-mail is baboon4215@gmail.com. Would be more…[Read more]

That’s really cool William 🙂 I used the live in New Mexico, that video takes me back there. Some of Clint Eastwood’s Westerns were filmed in New Mexico and I’m a big fan of his western movies. Thanks for sharing 🙂

Good stuff Jeff 🙂 You can e-mail me your address at baboon4215@gmail.com and I would be more than happy to send/give you 1, sometime in Sept-Oct. Summers are always tight for us until the new school year starts back up–my wife works for the public schools and the new school year just started. Over the summer my family is dependent on the $ I…[Read more]

I love Richard Elliot’s music–he’s been putting out some GOOD stuff. Thanks for sharing Mel! 🙂

The Reed Geek is NOT just another gimmick. There are so many things that you can do with the Reed Geek that you can’t do with sand paper, a nail file, . I’m not blasting those things, of course not. Have you ever tried a Reed Geek before? That video I shared above is by no means the only thing you do with a Reed Geek…no way. Different strokes…[Read more]