thanks Michael, ya I know what you mean.
I used to sorta play the King Curtis version years ago but lately I been hearing Ray Charles version on my boat and every time it came on it floored me so I started playing it again and then decided to do the full tracks etc…..glad you like it.
Never knew King Curtis did a cover of that song. I checked it out; you made the right call there for sure about doing it in Ray Charles’ version, much more ‘groovy’ than King Curtis’ version. It’s not too often that we hear a cover of some song that King Curtis did v.s. someone else did a cover of the same song that was better.
Mark, that was me mentioned in that interview but I just realized what happened…
Lionel Prevost and Lionel Torrence are the same guy, but because he changed his name I didn’t recognize it when you mentioned prevost, sorry bout that….ya he has a huge juicy sound but hard to find a lot of his stuff and I don’t have any.
While plying with ONE MINT JULEP I was able to hit Altissimo G for the first time. I was using my tuner to see how high I could go using the fork key, the octave key, the middle C key and this flat key behind the lower index finger and lower middle finger on the right hand. On my chromatic concert tuner the note showing first is concert E and with more blowing concert F shows and that’s Altissimo G on the tenor sax. I have Johnny’s Altissimo charts. Working my way up to the good times
Very cool William 🙂 Altissimo G is the hardest note in all of Saxophone to play consistently. Alt G# is a pain too LOL Once you get passed those 2 notes then it becomes relatively easy. If you can hear those notes in your head then you can play them. Don’t you just love Johnny’s Altissimo course? 🙂
.
