Tag Archives: Saxophone

Angelo & Ert Soundtrack

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: August 10, 2011
Earlier this year, I composed and recorded music for a short film by Jon B. Kushner entitled Angelo & Ert, a surreal tale set in New York City featuring sculpture by Antony Gormley. Many New Yorkers were momentarily shocked by the statues of Gormley’s Event Horizon installation, which perched naked statues atop tall buildings and [...]
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The Blues Nice and Slow

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: January 12, 2011
Here’s an outtake from a very cool soundtrack project I’m working on. Sounds nice with a lush 60’s-style reverb on it. Untitled Slow Blues  More on the project later, but at the moment I’m sworn to secrecy. I’m not sworn to not create a buzz, though!
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B Minor Rhythmic Tenor Drone

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 23, 2010
Here’s a little audio sketch I threw together today. Just experimenting with using processed sax key popping as a rhythm track. By running it through a gate and an amp simulator, it sort of suggests both tambura and tabla. Improvised over it in B minor. Simple recording rig: Electro-Voice RE20, E-mu 0404 USB, [...]
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Flame-O-Phone Video

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: February 20, 2010
My friend Stefan rigged an old bari sax to shoot five feet of propane-fueled flame from the bell! This video of a test run is making it’s rounds on the internet: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Check out Stefan’s account at Introducing: The Flame-O-Phone!.
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Sax Clips From The Puck

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: February 1, 2010
Here’s a roughly-edited sampling of sax clips from last Saturday night’s BlackTails gig at The Puck: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video We sold out the joint and made a lot of friends. It was definitely a party. A word about The Puck. It’s a really awesome venue. [...]
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Macarena Sax Jam

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 2, 2009
This is a fun clip of an impromptu jam that broke out after our gig last Friday. The whole gig was a bit like this, featuring live musicians jamming with a DJ. Half the band has put its instruments away by the time we did this, though, and the DJ is holding the [...]
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Michael Brecker Transcriptions Galore

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 22, 2009
Jaleel Shaw just posted a link on the Facebook to Michael Brecker playing Oleo, and that led to the mother lode of Michael Brecker transcriptions: http://www.michaelbreckerliverecordings.com/transcriptions.html Check out the whole site, maintained by saxophonist Louis Gerrits, obviously fanatic enough to build this wonderful catalogue. I miss Michael Brecker. It’s not right that he’s gone.
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Chris Potter solo All the Things You Are

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: August 14, 2009
A while back, Russ sent me this video (audio really) of Chris Potter playing All the Things You Are at a master class. It is mind blowing, and I’ve recently come back to it to work out what I can on my tenor: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Today, Stef [...]
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Vandoren Reeds Dropped at Roberto’s

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: July 9, 2009
I was at Roberto’s Woodwinds today to pick up some V16 soprano reeds.  An employee told me they no longer carry Vandoren reeds.  The reason given was that they were "expensive and inconsistent". Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t reeds always been expensive and inconsistent!? I suspect there’s more to the story than that.  But it [...]
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Smaz Blues

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: March 22, 2009
I finally got around to installing software on my digital audio workstation today.  The machine, cobbled together from old parts, is an Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.  It’s dual booting Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and Ubuntu 8.10.  I usually have it running in Ubuntu as my media server [...]
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