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I play saxophone, dance salsa, and work in a physics lab in California.
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- Saxophone Players - Never Stop Getting Better - The First Step
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Musically, some sax players seem unaware of how they sound and how they interact with other musicians on stage...They might stand out because their rhythm is off, they're out of tune, or they're just not listening to what's going on. It takes awareness to progress on saxophone.
- Earplugs For Saxophone Players - What Happens Without Them and When You Need Them
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] More cowbell! That's what Christopher Walken insisted on... With a salsa band, sometimes you're standing next to that cowbell though. Earplugs are pretty much a necessity if you want to not have your eardrums ringing for the rest of the night and lose your hearing later in your life.
- Michael Brecker - Saxophone Master Biography
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Saxophone virtuoso Michael Brecker was given an early start in jazz by his amateur jazz pianist father, who was a lawyer by trade. Brecker began his musical studies on clarinet, moving to alto saxophone, and finally settling on the tenor sax, which would become his primary instrument as his career progressed.
- Selmer Saxophones - Saxophone Brands
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Selmer makes many saxophones and their line once included the legendary Mark VI. Their recent models have returned to design ideas that the Mark VI had.
- Yamaha Saxophones - Saxophone Brands
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Yamaha produces many things, from electronics to motorcycles, BUT the company was founded as a musical instrument manufacturer in 1887 and has become a contender in the saxophone market. In those days, company founder, Torakusu Yamaha, started the company to produce pianos and reed organs.
- Lenny Pickett Tenor Saxophone Virtuoso
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Lenny Pickett is best known as the tenor saxophonist of the Saturday Night Live Band, he is one of the virtuosos of altissimo saxophone. The altissimo register is a technique that almost seems like a requirement for saxophonists today. It's based on harmonics and enables you to achieve notes above the normal range of the saxophone.
- Charlie Parker Bio Alto Saxophonist Legend
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker was one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time. Known also as Yardbird, or simply Bird, Charlie was an early bebop pioneer; many of his songs remain standards to this day.
- King Curtis - Rock and Roll Saxophone
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] You don't need to be a fan of the saxophone to have heard King Curtis' music; you only need a pulse. King Curtis was one of the best saxophone players in the early rock and roll and soul scene and he contributed to many albums in his day.
- Gato Barbieri - Argentinian Tenor Saxophone
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Argentinian tenor saxophonist, Gato Barbieri, has been entertaining jazz fans for over half a century. Gato Barbieri is Spanish for "Barbieri the cat"; his real name is Leandro Barbieri. Gato's career has spanned from free jazz, to Latin jazz, to jazz pop and in 2002, Gato released his 50th studio album. He first took up music with the clarinet, at age 12, after hearing Charlie Parker's Now's the Time.
- Sonny Rollins - Tenor Saxophonist Biography
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Tenor Saxophonist, Sonny Rollins is a true musician, a man who walked away from rising fame to practice alone atop an isolated bridge rather than letting his legend grow faster than his creativity. Rollins started as a piano player before being given his first saxophone at age 13. That first saxophone was an alto, a nod to saxophonist Louis Jordon. Rollins would switch over to tenor at the age of 16, inspired by his idol Coleman Hawkins. By the time he was 20, Rollins was playing with the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Other notable musicians that Sonny had played and recorded with by then include Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson, Babs Gonzales and Bud Powell.
- John Butler Million Dollar Australian Hippie
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] If you were to pass John Butler in the street, with his dread locks, unkempt facial hair and long nails, you could be forgiven for thinking he was just another hippie. What's more - you would be right. If you were to find out he was one of Australia's best selling artists you could easily think that this particular hippie just got lucky. However, you would be very much wrong.
- Joshua Redman Saxophonist - Jazz Saxophone
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Saxophonist Joshua Redman may not quite be a household name like jazz legends Miles Davis and John Coltrane, but his contribution to music has been broad and important. Redman was born February 1, 1969 to African American and Jewish parents, and at age 10 began to play the tenor saxophone. While studying in Berkeley's public school system, he was exposed to an exceptional jazz program that nurtured his natural abilities and enabled his entry to Harvard, where he graduated in 1991.
- Learning Saxophone - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sax
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Sax can be embarrassing and awkward, especially if you are just starting. It can help to have someone experienced guide you through the first steps. In time, anyone can become proficient at sax.
- Learning Saxophone - Practicing Scales on Saxophone - How to Not Waste Your Time
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Scales are important, they are one of the most important things you can practice on saxophone, but they are not magic. If you aren't looking for the right things, just playing through them won't give you any special abilities at all.
- Salsa Dancing in Germany?
[Recreation-and-Sports:Dancing] It sounds a bit odd, but I started salsa in the unlikely location of Heidelberg, Germany. While, traveling there for a study abroad program for university, the summer program included a bit of salsa. The teacher, Voytek, hailed from Poland.
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