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Altissimo Fingerings for Tenor Saxophone

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: September 27, 2011
I’ve been interested in the altissimo register since high school when I first heard Tower of Power recordings featuring Lenny Pickett. There are so many sources of information out there for people who want to learn to play altissimo (see below for a few useful links). In this post, I want to share the set [...]
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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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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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