The Complete Saxophone Player: Book 1
 reccommended for the novice: a great book for a novice to start off with as it includes all the basic techniques needed. However for more advance students, i would rather reccomend larry teal's art of playing the saxophone as it contains more details. [... more]
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Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard
High Note in the Life of the Troubled Art Pepper: Art Pepper was a gifted but troubled saxophone player who struggled with a serious heroin addiction he apparently never fully beat. This recording is a live date after one of his longer stints in a [... more]
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Jazz Signatures
From Amazon.co.uk: Jazz Signatures is another in a reliable line of Scott Hamilton recordings for the Concord label. The mainstream tenor ace has been with Concord since the mid 1970s, thus sustaining one of the longest unbroken relationships between [... more]
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Ceremonial
Surprisingly good, very inventive!!!: I have to admit that I had not heard of Miguel prior to this recording. I had the pleasure of hearing this recording in the record store of a friend of mine. Miguel has a beautiful tone but unlike players with such a [... more]
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Very Saxy
This is where it's at: A joyous, soulful, swinging set featuring some of the most underappreciated saxophonists of all time. Davis/Tate/Hawkins/Cobb give a no holds barred lesson in saxophonic badassness not to be missed. If you're a saxophone player, [... more]
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Timing Is Everything
Her time (and timing) is NOW!!: You wouldn't believe such a little woman could be so big with talent--but that's just the beginning. She's a sexy dark-timbred vocalist, scorching saxophone player, and lightning-quick rampaging boogie-woogie pianist too, [... more]
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Illuminations
FREE!!!!!!!!!: This is the closest album thing to avante garde jazz that Carlos Santana every did.Featuring brilliantly dramatic string accompanyment by harpist/arranger Alice Coltrane,her harp also plays a big role.The music is typically otherwordly and [... more]
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Travelling Mercies
From Amazon.co.uk: Reedsman Chris Potter is still best-known as Dave Holland's enduring sideman, but Traveling Mercies asserts an evolving strength as a leader. His second album for Verve marks another change of direction for this versatile musician. [... more]
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Ken Burns Jazzefinitive
From Amazon.com: Functioning as part of the musical component to Ken Burns's television documentary Jazz, this compilation is a 14-track introduction to Thelonious Monk's music. As with the other 21 single-CD compilations, the music here is, as the [... more]
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Duke Ellington And John Coltra
Amazon.com essential recording: Perhaps looking to renew his inspiration or maybe simply wanting to broaden his horizons, Duke Ellington began a string of collaborations in the second half of his career--whereas before that, his own band was stimulus [... more]
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Jazz Time Superband
From Amazon.co.uk: Although the admirable North American magazine Jazz Times has covered all kinds of experimental jazz over the years, it may be a sign of the retrospective times that it has chosen to spend its sponsorship money on a solidly mainstream [... more]
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Sometime In New York City
From Amazon.com: Agitprop political sensibilities have seldom made for great rock music, even in the hands of a genius like John Lennon. Or perhaps we should say especially in the hands of Lennon. Coming as it did on the heels of Imagine, arguably his [... more]
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