The New Rico Metalite Family Is Finally Complete
Ever since Rico reintroduced its famed, Metalite mouthpieces for soprano, tenor, and baritone saxophones, alto sax players have been asking: Hey, what about us? Well …
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Dick Parry: The Man Behind The Saxophone Sounds Of Pink Floyd
When it comes to saxophone in popular music, arguably some of the most, if not the most, epic saxophone solos ever played were done by Pink Floyd’s Dick Parry. …
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The Italian Saxophobia Project
In the central Italian province of Rome, is a town called Fiumicino. There you’ll find the Centro Studi Musicali Torre in Pietra (CSMT). According to their website—that is only …
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David Bowie: Actor, Artist, Record Producer, Arranger, Singer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Saxophonist
Yesterday I wrote about Clarence Clemons’ session work on 2 tracks of Lady Gaga’s newly released Born This Way album, and how this heralded the saxophone’s return …
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The Church Lady
I happened to stumble across this video on YouTube this morning and was blown away by this alto player. I think this video has the …
