Hope all is well with you. Really enjoying the emails you are sending out. It’s really helping me out a sax player.
-Lynette
Thanks alot I really appreciate your help to make me better
-Nicholas
Hey Neal,
Some of my favorites are Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordan, and John Coltrane man can those guys can play …
I’m doing alot of work on listening to there articulation and the way they speak on the sax so ta say ..
Time is always the judge and jury for learning something .. so I’m sure ill be tootin around here soon 😛
thanks for the interesting mails you’ve sent I’m learning alot and hearing alot of things i didnt know were out there ..
Shawn
I have to tell you this Getz/Coltrane combo video is AWESOME! Thank you for sharing.
Terry
HEY,
You got a great selection of jazz favorites!
I also really like King Curtis, Eddie Shaw, Lee Allen, Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet.
Check ’em out! They’re great!
Thanks for all the help!
-Stavros
Fantastic stuff, Neal! This material is just amazing! And really inspirational, too.
-Chris
Thank you for sending me this video! I loved it! All four of these guys are monster players! Incredible! Christian McBride is one of my favorite bass players! He’s unbelievable(and plus he has a great first name too lol). Joshua Redman is fabulous! What a great tone. I’m blown away by all four of these guys.
-Chris
I want to thank you too for all the information you gave me about
players, i always loved the saxophone but i don’t know so many
players. Right now i like only a few bands with sax players but (they
aren’t as good as some you recommended me), the advantage is that i can go to see them in here.
-Sofia (Argentina)
Thanks very much. Your advice is very good and I’ll try to pass it off to any of the sax players I meet at clinics. Thanks again for all you do and keep em’ comin’
Jimmy
Neal, I am really glad I found your weblink. Keep up the great work!!
-Delroy
I’ve always loved the saxophone. My wife has heard me say it many times, so last Christmas she went to the local music store and rented an alto sax for me to see if I would like it. I absolutely love it, even though I’m a 54 y/o 6th grader in music competency. I take private lessons and the instructor is great. That’s the basic history in a nut shell. I do have a question for you. I’ve always loved the tenor sax. My wife rented an alto simply because that is the sax of choice for beginners. I’m going to buy my own tenor sax. What are some of the brands you would recommend and is it a big deal going from an alto to a tenor?
Thanks Neal,
Dave
HELLO Neal,
I’m having a great time reading your e-mails and find them very informative. Learning and applying some of the lessons and techniques has been slow going because of my work schedule, its always changing..week to week. But I am determined to become not only a good sax player, but also to be a intelligent musician; I must learn to speak the language. If I am listening to a jazz artist in order to practice or learn a new song, some of my favorite artists are Kirk whalum, Kenny G, Grover Washington and Gato Barbieri to name a few. My altime favorites and jazz masters are Duke Ellington, Stanley Turrentine, Louis Armstrong, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz and John Coltrane.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK NEAL, LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE LESSON. Who knows, I just might actually learn to play….Thanks a lot
-Wade
Hi Neal
Excellent! I watched the Reed Adjustment one, that being one of my favorite topics from the time I was a kid and played clarinet, and will watch the others later today after work.
That one was really good, though, and I’m sure the others will be good also. I have a CD from an old issue of Saxophone Magazine with Jerry giving a lesson, I will look for the CD and see what it’s about.
Cheers
Bob
I remember these exercises! : ) Reminds me of taking saxophone lessons, I had to play exercises out of this book each week. Good stuff!!
-Molly
thanks neal
this is joshuas dad. lots of funnies lots of serious musicians out there. i think it ts great. you taking the time to share with josh he is a tallented young man.(unbiased opinnion, taking the publics opinion of him,he is a monster at home. but, i love him no matter what)
sincerely steve
Hi Neal, I Have found your site interesting to say the least. I have no degrees, and Ive never served on a musical Jury..
If a person wants to be a tenorman ( not a sax player). There is a body of worj you must master and it is not giantr steps..
What it is is Stardust, body and soul, lush life, speedball (lee morgan), confirmation, Con alma,, for the record Ive got steps coverd
.I wonder if the responed with all the credentials knows Poor Butterfly. or monks ask me now and evedence. Forthwith
here is a lis of players with no degrees , Coltrane, Rollins, Stitt, Hawkins, Lester young, Colman Hawkins, Moody. etc etc
If you need to know about the saxaphone, listen transcribe and most Important get in a band even if Its
just a rehearsel group
Later Bro
-Mike
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