Hi all i hope you are all keeping well and enjoying the warm weather i was wondering if any of you do sax repair/ as its something i want to get into. If...
Hi Tom, can't help you with the sax repair, sorry, but how's the recovery going after your operation? Fully back to normal yet and playing as much as ever? ...
Dougie thanks ye feeling good and now doing about an hour or an hour and a half but i love i am trying the Charlie Parker stuff at the moment its brilllll...
Hi Tom, posted a message a bit back about books by Carl Strommen I'm using in lessons at the minute. I'm currently working on "Somewhere over the rainbow",...
Hi Dougie iv had a go at sommertime its on my website http://www.freewebs.com/tom9437/ it was about 4 months ago but let me know what u think speak soon Tom...
... Hi again Tom, I've been through the sounds on your web-site before and think you are doing great. I mentioned to you before that I don't improvise so I'm...
Ok buddy this is an order record it and lets enjoy...... you know it will be fine anyway your doing the odd gig i would be terrified. hey if i can get away...
Where's everyone gone? I assume the lack of SaxClub emails in my inbox recently is due to people being on holiday. Unfortunately due an impending house move, ...
Hi jan your right its gone too quiet in here whats going on guys?????i am at the moment trying out some Charlie Parker music still doing about an hour a...
hello Jan. This is the first festival since I moved to West Lothian, and I'm beginning to get the hang of it. I caught quite a lot of events during the jazz...
Hi Jan, I'm an Edinburgh boy, originally from Juniper Green but I've lived in the East Midlands for 25 years or so now. It's a small coincidence but my teacher...
hi dougie i thought you would be one of the first to start the chat going again[good on ye bye the way i am a glasgow man but lived in peterborough since...
Hi Dougie. Puerto Banus, that's near Marbella, isn't it? I was in Marbella for a week a few years ago, but didn't locate any live music venues. Had a nice...
As a serious follow-up to my post about partying in Spain last week, Jim mentioned he's trying to get a sound like Joshua Redman and while I was enjoying...
hi - i just lurk and listen. i have just bought the grade 1 book for jazz tenor and hopefully i can find a tutor in this neck of the woods (derry, northern...
Hi Padraig good luck with the jazz grade i have put some jazz grade tunes on my website http://www,freewebs.com/tom9437/ it was a few months ago and i...
My wife has just bought the Piano Man CD which has a 10 track DVD with it. There is a live version of "New York State of Mind" on the DVD and the Alto player...
Hi Chris...I don't really know the answer but check out Richie Cannata from Long Island who was B.J's saxman from about 1975.....keep honking....Nik. ninjafb...
Chris Your question about Billy Joel reminded me of this impressive solo. I looked up Billy Joel's website and discovered the following extract: " The 1980s...
Thanks Dave, After checking the disc against a photo of a site I have now confirmed the Alto sax is played by mark Rivera. Very impressive in the rock group ...
Just out curiosity I have ordered a Maui Xaphoon. It is a sax-sounding (ish) instrument with no moving parts apart from a vibrating tenor-sax reed. Apparently...
Hi Moz I bought one a few years ago.........they are quite fun.....quite convenient to play.....and sound ok...ish......I cant see them ever replacing the real...
Hi Carry - good to hear from you, how's tricks? I also bought one. I travel quite a lot and thought it might be a useful practice tool that would fit in my...
Dougie See www.xaphoon.com for fingering chart and other info. Steve <snip....> ... copy ... fun.....quite ... ever ... any ... are? ... fun! ... tenor-sax ......
Hi all I was recently in Aberfoyle a wee village in Scotland...My hubby and I were playing at a wedding there anyway to cut a long story short we went into an...
Hi Nancy...there may be a lot more to it but Selmer London imported them until the late sixties under their own brand...they were American design but made in...
Hi Tom, you asked for it - I've just uploaded a version of Summertime from the Carl Strommen book I mentioned a bit back. It's not the best recording in the...
