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Leo Salu.
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April 6, 2020 at 3:19 pm #93136
Brilliant.
April 7, 2020 at 10:02 am #93155nice sound mike.
way to be productive! I’m getting out one a week too…feels good.April 10, 2020 at 8:01 am #93227Yeah!
April 12, 2020 at 10:46 am #93303Thank you all! I’m working on How Sweet it Is this week, hope to have it dialed in enough to record soon. Being locked away has really helped in me understanding how to use the recording gear I have, there are a lot of “subtleties” involved in recording that have an impact on the sound. Youtube is a huge benefit!!! Stay safe everyone!
April 12, 2020 at 10:58 pm #93399good luck Mike. ya, How Sweet it is took me longer than I expected….Jr Walker’s version is not so-straight-ahead. But well worth the effort in the long run.
April 13, 2020 at 2:47 pm #93428Lol! Yeah it’s proving to be quite the challenge!!! I’m on take 78… I’m sure my neighbors hate me!!
April 13, 2020 at 10:17 pm #93440take 78?>….good Mike, you’ll be a better player for it!
April 22, 2020 at 3:55 pm #93765Very Very nice , love the growls you put in there. Great job
April 22, 2020 at 4:21 pm #93774Hello Mike, I was thinking of buying this song “Something” but was a little afraid of that upper range,
but might give it a try after all, you did a great job on your cover. A little jealous of your Sax,
I use an old Selmer Bundy tenor and also have a new etude tenor, best I could do.April 25, 2020 at 12:20 pm #93847Thanks Gary and Leo!! This was a fun tune, I’m still jamming around on it, I went out on the driveway the other day and played a few tunes for the neighbors using some backing tracks and this was the song they all liked the most. Harlem Nocturne is always my favorite but it probably scared the kids… ha ha!
Let, give it a go, I’m a bit out of tune above D3 but playing this song and working on How Sweet it Is has improved by altissimo range. Looking forward to hearing your version!
Oh and don’t be jealous, my other tenor is a Viking (made in Taiwan) I pretty much sound the same no matter what sax I’m playing, different mouthpieces do have an impact on how I sound, but overall not much. Bundy’s were used by a number of pros back in the day (Wayne Shorter for one, he played a Bundy Beuscher stencil on the early Miles Davis recordings he played on) new saxes are almost all good, I’m not familiar with etude but I’ve played on Jupiters, cannonballs, PM’s, Eastmans, Unisons and they all played nice. I’m fortunate that I was able to pick up a Mark VI at a great price otherwise and I have two grandkids who are playing sax in HS, I was hoping I could pass it on to one of them if they keep playing, a cool family heirloom. I still gig using my Viking, it’s a great playing horn once I had it set up and it looks pretty cool (it’s a brushed solid nickel silver body and bell with black nickel silver plated keys, black pearls). I had a Mark VI back in the 80’s in the same serial number range of my new one and I kicked myself every day for selling it, for me.. it wasn’t the sound but more the feel, I haven’t played a different model sax yet that feels the way they do when playing, hard to explain. Anyhow, I’m rambling. Like the old saying “it’s the player, not the horn”, it’s all good!
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