Michael

Awesome Mel 🙂 For me, it’s been a huge help here in the south. With our humidity, Cane reeds can play different from 1 day to the next, but the added sound you get from Cane reeds makes the little bit of extra work with it–I think it does anyway LOL–Like anything else, the more you learn about how to use the Reed Geek properly the better the…[Read more]

That is a really nice one William, will be very cool 🙂

Good stuff Aminn, thanks for sharing 🙂 Nice job on the Altissimo notes 🙂 The cool thing about your licks is that they can be played in a variety of ways for different styles of music, very cool 🙂

There’s a lot of Jazz playing I love and the instructor I worked with here locally really got me hooked into playing it. When it comes to Improvising in Jazz, the approach we take is a ‘chord-by-chord’ approach. Just 1 example–The typical Blues scales is minor in nature because a Blues Scale is just a minor pentatonic scale with an added flat 5…[Read more]

Hi Sxpoet–sorry for not getting to this sooner. Pretty cool stuff–nice experimenting with the effects too. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up, the blues is where it’s at 🙂

Couldn’t have said it any better Jak! Besides the attitude, here locally with some of these folks who play Jazz it’s also a case where some of these guys are better in their own heads than what they really are if you get my meaning. I’ve seen Michael Eubanks play and I work with his wife–I shared his info above–and I actually feel that he’s a…[Read more]

Oh wow!!! Sorry to hear about that Johnny…man. After having an experience like that, I don’t blame you for feeling that way. I certainly would! Wow, what a low! Sorry if I brought up any bad vibes or anything–that certainly wasn’t my intent, wouldn’t have asked if I had known. That type of attitude is exactly what has kept me from getting…[Read more]

Been looking for it for awhile, it was on Amazon–here’s the link below. Good, good stuff Johnny 🙂 I’m hearing lots of licks/riffs I can recycle and use in my own playing. That’s a cool cover of ‘Walk Right In’ you guys did; I must have listened to Bill Harvey’s version about 100 times over the last few months LOL Wish you had a backing track for…[Read more]

For sure it was a great find 🙂 I’ve been looking for it and couldn’t find it. We can buy Johnny’s other albums on CDbaby.com, but this album is not available–not sure why. I was talking about ‘Walk Right In’ that Johnny and his band released for this album, here’s Bill Harvey’s version–I’m not sure if Bill Harvey is the original artist for this…[Read more]

Good stuff Keith–thanks for sharing 🙂 A good thing to do is to take note of what these guys are doing in their playing that stands out to us and incorporate that in our own playing.

Keep up the great work Jazz Cat, you do such a great job with your video edits…man, you put a lot of work into your videos! That’s very cool 🙂 I have a Sax version of that song too and will upload it as soon as I can, it’s all on the Saxophone. I’m definately not a singer, good for you to step up and do it 🙂 I have been so busy with the local…[Read more]

Great fun Ken–you took us right into those city lights 🙂 The guys with ZZ Top would say that you’re a ‘sharp dressed man’ too, very cool 🙂 Focus on keeping your oral cavity a little bit more open when you’re playing, will really open up your sound. A cool thing you can do with your articulation is to ‘Bebop’ it, accent a note and ‘ghost’…[Read more]

Very cool William 🙂 What MP/reed combo are you playing with these days?

Update on my Selmer Signet: I took it to the shop today. There’s 5 pads that need replacing, the upper body of the sax was a little out of alignment & the key holder that the neck strap attaches to needed to be replaced, which he said is nothing out of the norm for a Sax from 1965 and overall it was in great shape. I bought it from the original…[Read more]

It’s not an Alto, it’s a Tenor. Just using my same set up–Ebonite MP with a Winslow ligature and 2.5 Alexander Superial Cane Reeds.