Forum of the Saxes

reisio · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Location: Florida

Someone just linked this forum at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone so I came. Smile

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. Smile

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.

CMelodyMan · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the Forum! Congratualtions you are our 100th member!
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

reisio · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Location: Florida

Hey, neat.

Gandalfe · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Seattle, WA

So what does he win? Mr. Green

Very nice licks in those sound bites. What did you use to record them?

And thanks for sharing!
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Thomas · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 223 Location: Alberta, Canada

reisio · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Location: Florida

Gandalfe · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Seattle, WA

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Thanks for the response Reisio.
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Bariman · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: