saxomonica

Thanking you, Leo, for bringing this dark song to life for us being in a radiant and positive fashion.

Well played, Sir!

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Says Google ~

Background and composition.

Singer and songwriter Bobby Hebb wrote the song “Sunny” in 1963. He wrote the song after two tragedies. Both happened on November 22.

The first tragedy was a n…[Read more]

Thanking you for sharing, James. Great interview. Tom Jones was in Perth earlier this year.
Sensational.
Mark

Says Tom Jones, I don’t think you can sing about certain things when you’re a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven’t lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

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Says
Brian Wansink
Retired – Cornell University

Abstract

Where have all the saxophones gone in pop music? Quantifying their popularity over time could give useful insights into the trends and psychology behind hit songs. An analysis was conducted of 1081 Top 40 songs (1955-2020) with sax solos. A rollercoaster of popularity was found with two…[Read more]

‘For a thing unknown there is no desire’.
No disrespect intended ya
🙂

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‘Beat It’
Song by Michael Jackson

Lyrics

They told him, “Don’t you ever come around here”
“Don’t wanna see your face, you better disappear”
The fire’s in their eyes and their words are…[Read more]

Hi James,
Mate check this beauty vid at aprox 54 mins, day, but the whole thang is very grooovee, he later talks about incredibly warm tone of Ben Webster whom I knew not what prior.Have you heard of him? There is a docco, The Brute and the Beautiful I try and source for us. Meanwhile.
cheers
Mark

see

further,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4JWqK6r6N4

see also,

► Yo Leo.

“At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. For, in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better position than that from which it can light up the whole thing at the same time?” — Nicholas Copernicus

Says Google ~ Eppur si muove [epˈpur si ˈmwɔːve]) [“It still moves!” or “But it does mo…[Read more]

FYI

see

blues@livingblues.com

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Colin James announces Chasing The Sun: a new album and world tour

i) Hiya Leo, nice to hear from you!
Thanking you.
Nope – the 23 went west, so to speak, they readvertised it for 2.5 k last i know of after an agreed price of 1.5k between us, yet i left a Yamaha trumpet as a deposit for it that they still have; i guess we sort somethink out later ya.

ii) Johnny, me a silly billy, itz ‘And i love her’ is the…[Read more]

Hiya John and my saxy friends,

howz thangs?
what’s hapenning

apologies i been a stranger, but, Yo, i’m back ..
“explanations become excuses”
soon i post some songs ‘k too, am just wrestling with my Youtube Channel

Ya, i can’t access Premium Membership this particular eve either,
mateys
it comes and goes
but not in rainbows, nope,

i guess…[Read more]

🙂

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And who is this mellow maestro that has been hiding in the wings all this time!

Cheers

🙂

https://tamingthesaxophone.com/lessons/exercises/alternative

Hiya @Jeff !

Are you the lovely gentleman that had posted a gorgeous air here on site just a few years back and i was really rude to you being at that time and i actually went so far as say to your song sounded tonally like, 3 Blind Mice?! Can you believe it. The audacity!

Please understand i still feel tragiclly upset about my unconstructive…[Read more]