SAXOPHONE
- North American Saxophone Alliance - Organization for saxophonists.
- The International Saxophone Home Page
- Sax on the Web - All kinds of info on playing, setups, including a great forum.
- Dorn Publications - good on-line resource to purchase sax reeds, music and recordings. They also publish the Saxophone Journal, a great periodical for saxophonists.
- Classic Saxophone On-Line - a great source for music, recordings (including More than Sax!), reeds and mouthpieces for the saxophone
- Eble Music - good source for saxophone and other sheet music
- Yamaha Tips from the Pros - good articles on saxophone playing, tone, choosing instruments, etc.
- Sax FAQ - Usenet listing from sax newsgroup on players, tone, vibrato, practicing, technique, etc. Great source!
- Jazz-Sax.com
- Adolphe Sax - historical information about the creator of the saxophone
- Contrabass.com - Info on this "rarest" of saxophones
- Saxophone History Timeline
- Indiana University Sax Studio
- Crane University Sax Studio - includes good list of jazz and classical recordings
- Arno Bornkamp
-
great
Dutch saxophonist - Jay Easton's Home Page - nice site with pictures of his new contrabass saxophone!
- Susan Fancher - saxophonist with the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet
- Ted Hegvik - Rudy Weidoft specialist
- Simon Harem - a wonderful British saxophonist
- Aaron Lington - bari player in the PSQ and a great jazz musician
- Joe Lulloff - a wonderful player!
- Tim Mc Allister's Home Page - info on the instructor of saxophone and course requirements at the University of Michigan
- Victor Morosco - one of the great player/teachers! These pages include info on his recordings and some info on his master teaching techniques. All I can say is "they work!"
- Russell Peterson's Saxophone Home Page
- Sigurd Rascher - one of the most influential classical saxophonists
- Brian Sacawa
- John Sampen - a great promoter of new music for the saxophone
- Bill Trimble - link to my former teacher's latest CD with composer/performer Dan Wyman.
- Kenneth Tse - a wonderful saxophonist. Check out his "Sonate" recording!
- John Edward-Kelly
- Ashu
- Steve Gray's Musical Instruments Home Page- nice guy, with instruments for sale
- Steve Goodson - woodwind repairman from New Orleans
- Saxophone Mouthpiece Comparison- brief list of Saxophone setups, listed alphabetically by player.
- Arizona University Recordings - a nationally distributed recording company with a diverse catalogue including classical saxophone recordings.
- Hey it just plays better! - products for the saxophone--thumb rests, key clamps and more.
- Quintette Musique - If you're ever in Paris, visit this music store. Nice looking site!
- Sax Alley - professional saxophone repair and sales that caters to the needs of the serious and professional saxophonist.
- Sax Quest - they specialize in vintage and professional model saxophones, along with mouthpieces and more!
- Yamaha Saxophones - my horn of choice!
- Selmer Saxophones Home page
- Gonzalez Reeds
- my new
favorite reed! I use their size 3-1/2 or 3-3/4
regular reeds.
- Rico Reeds - makers of Rico Royal, La Voz and Hemke reeds
- Vandoren Reeds
- The Premiere Saxophone Quartet - my current quartet of choice!
- Victor Morosco Saxophone Quartet - Check out this great group that I played in!
- The Capitol Quartet Members are - Anjan Shah, Marty Nau, David Lewis, David Stambler, Joe Lulloff, Chris Creviston, Donell Snyder-Bellefeuil, Kevin Stewart, Ken Foerch and Dave Tucke (Now I know you're thinking--quartet with 9 members? Check it out!)
- The New Century Saxophone Quartet
- Paragon Saxophone Quartet
- The Prism Saxophone Quartet
- The San Francisco Saxophone Quartet
- The Texas Saxophone Quartet
- The Transcontinental Saxophone Quartet
- Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra - "Hear the Whales, Save the Saxophone!" I used to play with this sextet.
- Toronto Sax Fest - On Sunday May 30, 2004 almost 1,000 Saxophone players got together to play their way into the Guinness Book of Records.. Here's some photos from the event.
- Wirth Publishing
- here
you can find some of the music of one of my favorite
composers, Carl Anton Wirth.
- Arizona University Publications - Printed music from several of "America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax" CDs, as well as other saxophone music.
- Charles Buel - a wonderful composer who wrote over 9 works for saxophone, including his solo Reflections on Raga Todi (1972), which was inspired by Ravi Shankar's autobiography which I recorded on More than Sax.
- Rene Carlos Ochoa - a composer friend I've known for 25 years.
- Gerald Fitkin -British composer
- Laura Karpman
- L.A.
based composer who wrote a new work for the
PSQ
and chamber orchestra
premiered with the San Jose Chamber
Orchestra in October 2007.
- John Mackey -an up
and comping American composer who likes the
saxophone
- Music Composition Resource - want to learn how to compose or improve your skills?--check this out.
- JS Bach: Analysis of Canons & Fugues
- Digital Beethoven
- San Francisco Contempory Music Players - A great new music in SF that I've performed with.
- Santa Cruz New Music Works - another group I've performed with.
- Saxtet Publications - publishing company specializing in quality new sheet music for the saxophone.
Concerts
- Yoshi's - a great Oakland Jazz club
- More coming!
- Mel Martin's Jazz & Saxophone Web Site - a great site from this master musician. Has tons of great links!
- Jamie Aebersold Jazz Site - Home page of one of the great improv teachers! Includes all his "Play-Along" recordings and books.
- John Coltrane
- Chick Corea - one of my favorite jazz pianists
- Eddie Daniels - one of the world's greatest jazz clarinetists
- The Miles Davis World Wide Web Page
- Paul Desmond - one of my favorites
- The Edward Kennedy Ellington Pages
- Joe Henderson
- Dave Liebman
- Miles Osland
- The Official Phil Woods Web Site-find out about concerts by this all-time great player
- Michael Furstner's JAZCLASS
- Jazz Bari Sax Performers - nice site featuring performers like Gerry Mulligan.
- A Jazz Improvisation Primer
- Jazz Improvisation- syllabus for Jazz Improvisation courses at the University of Wisconsin Madison
- The Jazz Corner - an interesting site with several up and coming artists
- MENC - Music Educators National Conference
- CMEA - California Music Educators Association
- Bay Section/CMEA - Home page of the Bay Section of the California Music Educators Association. Great site for Music & Technology info.
- MTAC - Music Teachers of America, California. I am a member of this organization for private music teachers. Their Certificate of Merit program is a comprehensive forum for developing your student's musical skills through music theory, music history, sight-reading and performance.
- San Jose State University - A great place for an music education (my alma mater and I currently teach at this fine institution)
- Tutor 2000 - Source for tutors in all subjects, including music
- Music Theory Online
- good
resource to develop our ear training
- J.W. Pepper Network - Sheet Music,and software ordering online for music educators
- Southern Music Company Online
- Sax Music Plus - online sax sheet music
- Sheet Music Online - The name says it all!
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary - great resource that "speaks" the musical terms!
- Search the Internet for a Certain MIDI file--great way to find them!
- Harmony Central: MIDI Tools & Resources - great source for Standard Midi Files, demo software, shareware and links to the world of MIDI
- Art's Wind Synth Page - Site with info on the Yamaha WX7 and WX11 windcontrollers, as well as related sound modules like the VL70-m.
- Patchman Music - a source for wind controller sound files for many sound modules and synths.
- MacMusic - Music, Audio & MIDI on Macintosh
- Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) - Overview of how MIDI works.
- Classical MIDI Archives - Classical Music files in MIDI Format
- List of Music Software Companies - Demos to many of the programs below!
- Ars Nova - Producers of the music theory program "Practica Musica"
- MakeMusic - Developers of Finale Notation program and SmartMusic.
- Computers & Music - Bay Area and mail order source for music software
- Bay Section/CMEA - Great site with Music & Technology info
- Digidesign - Their Pro Tools software gives you complete control of powerful recording, sequencing (MIDI), editing and mixing features for your music.
- Mark of the Unicorn - Source of some great music notation and sequencing software. I have usee their Composer's Mosaic, Performer and Unisyn.
- PG Music - creators of the wonderful Band-In-A-Box software. It allows you to type in the chord changes to any song and create a bass, drum, piano and more accompaniment in any style. You can download a demo for Mac or PC.
- Sibelius - Notation software for the Mac or PC.
- Amazing Slow Downer - Software for transcribing music. Great to learn your favorite player's solos! Slows down the speed of the music - between -50% and 400% time-stretching without changing the pitch, changes the key, adjust tuning, work from CD, MP3, AIFF, AAC/MP4 and wave files on your computer in real-time.
- Transcribe - Software for transcribing music from CD's. You can use your Windows or Macintosh computer to instantly slow down those tricky licks and phrases - as much as 1/26 the original speed - without changing the pitch!
- AaBaCa - a good source for educator prices on music software including BIAB for $59!
MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC TOPICS
- San Francisco Symphony Home Page - I occasionally play with them
- Instrument Jokes- A source or almost every instrument! Have some fun!
- Classical Music Used in Films - Heard a piece in a film and don't know who wrote it? This list from the Naxos collection will help you identify the composer and title.
- A Recitalist's Checklist - great list of how to prepare for your next recital by Steven Mauk.
- Music Manuscript Paper
- great
resource if you need some music paper
Truthout.org - Great resource for what's happening the in the world of politics
Alternet -
another
resource for what's happening in the world
"FUN" WEB TOPICS
Yosemite web cams - live views of one of my favorite places on earth!
Familiar Quotations
Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk - great source for finding quotations, translation from several languages, thesaurus and dictionary.