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| reisio |
'loSomeone just linked this forum at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone so I came.
I'm 22 and have been playing (almost strictly alto) sax for about eleven years I guess. I'd classify myself as just at the fringe of being a professional. Need to bum some gigs off my guitarist friend and get into the game. I'm far from a master, but I attribute that to not playing much in the past couple years. :p I've got a Selmer Mark VI alto from the 70s, a similar vintage metal Selmer C** mouthpiece which I use for jazz (Hemke reeds for a while now), and a Selmer S80 I use every now and then for nonjazzy things (Vandoren reeds). I love my sax, but lately I've been thinking about going down to a big music store nearby and trying out a bunch of new ones and see if I like any of them similarly. If I can find one as good as my current, I'd like to have a new one to add scratches to all by myself. Have my eyes on a Yanagisawa. Actually I have designs (verb) to make my own model, but that would obviously take a while. My favorite saxophonist is Paul Desmond, followed fairly closely by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt...to name some obvious ones.
If you're not too picky, here are a couple recordings my good friend Taylor (guitarist) and I made in 2001 with the help of a family friend and his bassist and drummer. My playing is a little trite, but not too horrible: http://reisio.com/tampa/f_blues_ptdm.mp3 http://reisio.com/tampa/equinox_ptdm.mp3 I do live in Florida (born & raised), but in Gainesville, not Tampa. |
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| CMelodyMan |
Welcome to the Forum! Congratualtions you are our 100th member! | ||||
| reisio |
Hey, neat. | ||||
| Gandalfe |
So what does he win? 
Very nice licks in those sound bites. What did you use to record them? And thanks for sharing! |
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| Thomas |
The recognition and self-satisfaction that comes with being the 100th member, of course. 
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| reisio |
IIRC, the mic setup for me was a rather old Sennheiser - and it was some DAT recorder, don't remember. :p |
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| Gandalfe |
IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly
IIRC If I Read Correctly IIRC If I Really Cared IIRC If It Really Counts Thanks for the response Reisio. |
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| Bariman |
In other words, squat. Bariman |
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