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Hi, it`s a surprising thing, because, I assume, that when you could memorize a piece by Bach, it should be fairly easy to remember jazz licks. Of course, I understand that you have troubles to incompo ...

It just occured to me that over years we get and dispose of a great number of musical tools. So, what is the cost of being a boss? Today I rather unsurprisingly have found certain disbalance. While ov ...

In some of the threads I noticed Mark saying that he (and Henry Johnson as well) usually practice dry (no amp). This is quite the opposite of what other players sometimes say about achieving good tone ...

I have read somewhere (maybe in an interview with Robert Conti) that it makes almost no difference whether you use .011 roundwounds or some posh super heavy flatwounds. I agree... I use .011 roundwoun ...

To my knowledge, the amount of the swing feel, or, in other words, how hard you swing, has changed over the past decades. Typically, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young are mentioned for swinging really ...

Since my thumbs are roughly half the size of those of Wes Montgomery`s or George Benson`s, I can hardly give any serious suggestions Wink

. However, not long ago, I had a chance to check out a John ...

Freight Trane is a really cool tune to play. Whenever I meet my friend who plays sax, we race through the head. I`ve never won the chase... Smile

Hi,

in another section of the forum you wrote that these days you are using Snowball by Blue Microphones. Is this the case of this recording as well? I ask, because I am very impressed by the sound ...

Perhaps, I might not add anything new to this discussion, I just would like to share a personal experience: On Friday, I checked out an annual jazz festival that takes place in my hometown. It split i ...