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James, James, you crack me up! 🙂

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Q. What is a blue whale’s favourite James Bond Film?
A. “Licence to Krill”.

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Three men are challenging each other’s aim by shooting an apple on someone’s head.
The first man fired his pistol 20 meters away, hits the apple.

“I’m James Bond.” He said.

The second man s…[Read more]

Sounds interesting, William 🙂

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Howzat!! Hi

Way cool, James! Wots goin’ down, what’s a happennin’?

Letz move with the groove, ya.

You get down, you get up again!

The times change and we change with them.

It grows as it goes.

Keep on Tootin’ brothers; rock on

Seasons Greetings.
Mark

🙂

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Fantastic and inspirational effort as ever, Leo! Your musical tone is soooo good. I love that microphone and speaker echo effects, that is coupled woth all your embellishments. You certrainly are our rising star!!
Before you ask i’m still waiting to hear back from the sax repair lady insofar to my YTS – i think she must be on holidays o/s. Ya…[Read more]

Bravo, Sheila! Well played and most enjoyable to listen to, thanking you. 🙂

Hi Wayne,

if you want to check out John’s Premium Membership, note there is a module on Tone Development which includes his comprehensive video course on the altissimo range.

How are your overtones, starting from low Bb?

Sometimes i can hit altissimo g sometimes not, i find you need to bounce your airstream of your top palate and really…[Read more]

Many thanks, Leo! What a beautiful sax ya! Thanx 4 sharin’.
i’m trying to pick up the refurbished one i wrote about with you, but the repairer is not anwewring her phone. i will keep you in the loop. Recently i saw a yts 23 on FB Marketplace local for a grand. It had been in a case for the last 30 years. Mint it looked. i shoulda swooped on it but…[Read more]

Very entertaining, Leo, great job! Ya.
Thanking you.
🙂

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[Verse 1]
Let me tell you about a place
Somewhere up a New York way
Where the people are so gay
Twisting the night away
Here they have a lot of fun
Putting trouble on the run
Man, you find the old and young
Twisting the night away

[Chorus]
They’re twistin’,…[Read more]

hello i tried the checkout too and have coupon block on the checkouit page and can enter a code also fyi ..
you get your month’s code from premium membership page ya
and enter code at checkput?

Urgent Saxophone Music

thanks for the clarification, John,
here is a similar clip ya ~

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Is that Thom Gimbel, or maybe Billy Joels regular sax player Mark Rivera?
What do you think?

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From Sax on the Web,

‘Mick Jones was another englishman who had grown up…[Read more]

FYI more fom JF Premium Dashboard per Born to Run, being with his kind indulgence.

see

“Born To Run Sax Part as Played by Clarence Clemons

This is some bonus material that wasn’t part of the sax solo lesson. I spent so much time with the backing track to make it work for the solo section that I figured we might as well get more use from it so h…[Read more]

press red play button, right hand side

https://chordify.net/chords/bruce-springsteen-songs/born-to-run-chords

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another backing track, say
& nice telecaster
concise lesson too!

🙂

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https://www.songfacts.com/facts/patsy-cline/crazy

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10 Interesting Facts About Patsy Cline

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Lyrics
Crazy, I’m crazy for feeling so lonely
I’m crazy, crazy for feeling so blue
I knew you’d love me as…[Read more]

Xcellent Pete! even Dusty Springfield would be impressed with shakin’ the dust offa your alto! Nice!!

says Google
“Always on My Mind” is a ballad written by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher, and Mark James, first recorded by Brenda Lee, and first released by Gwen McCrae (as “You Were Always on My Mind”) in March 1972. Lee’s version was released…[Read more]

Yo Leo i believe in you!
Johnny too
And everyone else says whoo hoo!

ya c’mon Champ! i dream of Clarence

Says John,

from JF Premium Dashboard
@Blues Section

“The Clarence Clemons solo is another great example of what we can do with this great, simple pentatonic scale, both major and minor but in this case it’s the major.

Below you have the s…[Read more]

Am so glad to see you abiding with us in the Bb habit mate! 🙂 great news on your clarinet mojo too, wow, siffing hey what, jolly good show olde cappie 🙂 ‘it grows as it goes’