Welcome to the blog of Garrett Hypes, owner of Saxophone.com. Stay up to date with posts all related to saxophones and jazz music.
We recently received this note from Saxophone.com customer Jim Lawlis: Heres a clip of me playing the black nickel, silver keyed tenor from you guys (which I love by the way).Its a beginning sequence for a tv show here in Toronto. Talkin Blues James Lawlis, Academic Teacher, Columbia International College
Have you ever had the experience of being sharp because the warmer weather and trying to pull out your mouthpiece only to find it so loose that it wobbles and barely stays on the neck? Then you tried to use some strip of paper as a temporary fix to wrap around the neck only to [...]
Today I worked with the medium sized orchestra that backs up The Tribute to Frank, Dean, and Sammy. We played a corporate gig at the Mandalay Bay.
Sometimes you need the additional edge on performance that only a professional Saxophone can give you. Sometimes as a professional you get hired on a tenor when you only own an alto or the gig also requires a baritone. These are some of the reasons you would want to rent a pro Saxophone as opposed [...]
