General

NEW: The saxophonist and jazz saxlog shop for beginners

Since I am dealing with the topics of saxophone and jazz, I'm constantly looking for music, play-alongs and good music. Search the depths of the web for pearls is not always easy and, above all, time-consuming.
So I've decided to, at this point a little "Shöpchen" too ;-) [...]


Customer leaves - Part 2

When I was very happy the last few weeks with my Rico Royal 2.5 reeds, there was again in a day and more and more moments where suddenly the middle of playing the sound. I initially thought something is going on with my saxophone. After looking at all the doors, mechanics and upholstery had looked carefully, could [...]


Book Review: All That Jazz

All That Jazz is a fun and interesting book about the history of jazz. Me as a "beginner" it has really helped to understand the context and chronology and trace the development from its beginnings in the southern United States in the 19th century to the present.


Crooner.de - Swing and Jazz Guitar Voice

A good friend, colleague and great musician has his website thoroughly revised. On Crooner.de Ralph has now put together about his music, about the crooner's Quartet and updates on performances with audio and video examples.


Small leaves customer

The search for the ideal combination of leaf-tip will probably never stop. Having to start all over with the MPC standard of Jupiter and a Vandoren V16'm starting to level 2 or 2.5, I had the second MPC ESM then my problems.


First audio recordings

Yesterday I once recorded with the microphone in the laptop and Audacity two titles. It sounds very tinny and rattling, should also serve more time than small stock and not serve for a CD production.

Unfortunately, I have it in "Shadow of Your Smile" at the end even after the two small mistakes, but also I had no more desire to change that yet - so I normally do not play so wrong!

Actually, this is just a test to see how WordPress can handle audio files / MP3s. If that works well, then I will continue to document more often by audio. However, there is still a tiny Gema problem, so I will make the respective posts will probably open by appointment only.


New mouthpiece - Selmer Soloist

I bought a new MPC (mouthpiece). A Selmer Soloist.