I’m just speaking the truth about your playing–I do see an awful lot of similarities between your playing and players from this era…seems like they had a big influence on you? There’s just something about the Saxophone style of playing from that era that I don’t think today’s modern music can come close to……that’s not to say there’s not good stuff in today’s modern world of music—My wife loves Justin Timberlake’s song of “Mirrors” and I started learning it on Alto. It is a beautiful song and it’s perfect for the Alto Saxophone. Karaoke actually had a good backing track for it. But it doesn’t come close to the music from this era and you do such a fantastic job of capturing the essence of it in your own playing. I guarantee you one thing that, come this fall when I play at the event I was invited to for players of all levels—I will get more people “moving” when I play “Tequila” v.s. “Mirrors”; no doubt about that! 🙂

I saw the video and commented on it here on the blog and on your channel—-that is just amazing playing. I “hurts” to listen to because I’ve been working so, so hard on my Saxophone to improve and to get to that level of playing that you showed on that video is a dream of mine. I can’t help, at times, to feel like “I’ll never get there” those guys have been playing for years and they eat it like Candy! It’s almost mind-boggling to think about.