Happy Endings for January 18 ( Read more... )

Add "play saxophone through the pain of a nearly bitten through lower lip" to the list of Amazing Shit Elbie Did This Year ( Read more... )

Yeah, that "new saxophone yay" was a piece of poo. It had a plate of metal strapped to it, which suggests that the integrity of the metal of the horn has been compromised. (Layman's terms: it's been beat up seven ways from Sunday and got a Frankenstein-esque patch job.) The metal made the horn heavier, so it made for good low notes, but if I got ( Read more... )

Alas, it is. And don't call me Shirley ( Read more... )

Here is THE secret to keeping your sanity in any relationship ( Read more... )

We had a good, quick rehearsal, despite me having to do some quick-and-dirty transposing because I didn't have my music. (Andy lost my copy of the song. That's my story, etc...) We're playing an arrangement of "At Last" - more like the original version than Etta James' version, but that's okay. It sounds sweet with four saxophones - soprano, ( Read more... )

At least once a day, somebody comes in and asks The Question ( Read more... )

The bari sax is fixed! New neck cork and a pad and some adjusting here and there, and it plays better than it ever has. (And it doesn't double as a percussion instrument!) Too bad Dr. Brad couldn't install a low A key, but that's life ( Read more... )

Tonight I played a 1969 Selmer Paris Mark VI Alto Saxophone for a few minutes ( Read more... )

The head alto sax player in the band (hell, the head sax player period as far as I'm concerned - Bill is good) came into the store today to putter around, and said he'd like me to join a smaller ensemble made of some of the "stronger players" (his words, not mine!). Mainly because they need a solid bottom-note player. But also because they like ( Read more... )