A Great Lenny Pickett Interview
Without a doubt, as a rock and blues tenor player my greatest single influence has been Lenny Pickett. I have for years been fascinated by …
Famous And Not-So Famous Sax Players
Happy Saxophone Day 2013
Happy Saxophone Day 2013 everyone! It was 199 years ago today that a man was born in the Belgium city of Dinant—a man who would …
Stan Getz Says…..
The name Stan Getz is synonymous with many things: jazz, improvisation, tenor saxophone, and of course the Selmer Mark VI—just to name a few. There …
Conjoined Twin Sax Players: From Sideshows To Vaudeville
For quite some time now, whenever I search eBay for saxophone collectibles, up pops a photograph of conjoined twins playing sax. Honestly, I thought it …
R.I.P. Laura Mae Daniels 1925-2012
The saxophone world lost someone earlier this month—someone who at one time brought a bit of home to the men and women who served the …
