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Reedology

The (almost) lost art of reed preparation. What is reed preparation? Quite simply it is the way you maintain and process your reeds for further use and eventually for longevity, or one may prepare their reeds in order to make corrections to them, such as ... Read >

Music, MIDI and Sax

What's definitely here to stay is the marriage of traditional acoustic music and computers. Whether you're performing music with a combination of acoustic instruments and electronic instruments (such as samplers and sequencers), solely electronic, or just... Read >

A Minimalist Approach to Improvisation

Often times when we are improvising in jazz or any other idiom for that matter, we come to a point where we are in search for new ideas. There has never been a shortage of scales and patterns to try and utilize. Improvisation can also be looked upon as sp... Read >

5 Tips to Improve Your Technique

This week we're going to look into some tips on how to improve your technical agility. One of the main abilities a musician must have is to have command of the technical aspects of his/her instrument. Tip #1: Play everything slowly "Slow is the same... Read >

At the Jazzclub Unterfahrt with Greg Osby May 17, 2003

By Evan Tate This interview was conducted on the 17th of May 2003 at the Jazzclub Unterfahrt in Munich, Germany. Greg was currently on tour with the 'New Sound Collective' (currently re-named "Structure") along with Terri Lynne Carrington, Steve Khan, a... Read >

Creating your own products

The internet has been a blessing for the solo musician, especially if you're open to new ways of promoting your music, your musical philosophies and new ways to make money. One of the things that I do is sell ebooks, books and CD-ROMs from my websites. ... Read >