Category Archives: Saxophone

February 13

Woodwind doubling — Practical Advice

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Here are 6 extremely practical habits that can help to improve your doubles dramatically. These are habits that I’ve acquired from years of experience doubling on multiple woodwinds. While these tips won’t help you improve your technical abilities on your instruments, I believe they are invaluable when it comes to the mechanics of actually switching […]

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October 21

Flutter tonguing — A super easy method.

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I was talking to a trombone playing friend of mine last night about flutter tonguing and he told me that he doesn’t really know how to do it properly so I thought that I would post an article on the subject. Flutter tonguing is called for pretty rarely so it’s no surprise that most people […]

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October 02

Bad Guys @ Gallery 121

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Here are some photos from the last Bad Guys gig at Gallery 121 before I left town. This one was a lot of fun. We had a pretty hilarious mix up with the pianist at the beginning. I had never met the guy that I hired to play this date so i didn’t really think […]

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September 11

Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame Photos

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Here are some photos from the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony gig a couple of weeks ago at the Canton Palace Theater with Robert T and Papa’s New Bag.   All photos by Vince Robinson.

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September 04

Cirque Excerpts

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I’ve been working on some excerpts from a few different Cirque du Soleil shows lately. They’re available on their website  with backing tracks and the music is really interesting…and challenging! A lot of it definitely sounds like French circus music but there are many tunes with interesting world music sounds. It’s all very colorful stuff. […]

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August 31

New gig flyers

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I forgot how much I like making these things! Here are some flyers I made for the next Bad Guys gig.

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August 30

Gallery 121

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I had a great gig tonight at Massillon’s Gallery 121 with my new group, Bad Guys. Thank you to everyone who came out! It was a totally packed house and I had a great time! I met our pianist, Dan Maier, for the first time tonight and it was a total joy to play with […]

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August 22

Rhythm & Blues HOF

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This Sunday I’ll be playing at the official Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame induction ceremony with the Real Soul Pleaser, Robert T and his James Brown tribute ‘Papa’s New Bag.’ The show is at the beautiful Canton Palace theater, Aug 24th at 6.00pm. Tickets are $60.   This year’s inductees include Michael Jackson, Whitney […]

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July 22

The Story of Motown*

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*note…not the real Motown… Motown is a mini show, what Celebrity calls an ‘interactive theme party,’ that we play weekly with 4 singers and the entire cast of dancers. Our portion of the show is one big medley of Motown tunes such as Sir Duke, Tears of a Clown, Reach Out, I Wish, and Ain’t […]

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January 21

Henry Cowell ‘Air and Scherzo’

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Does anyone know where to get the piano reduction for Henry Cowell’s ‘Air and Scherzo’ for alto saxophone and small orchestra? I played this piece for a competition years ago but seem to have lost my piano reduction. It also seems that it is not available anywhere on the internet. Henry Cowell was a true […]

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