MHFB Rainbow Tie 2021

Freddie Freeloader Demo

The Ned Washington and Hoagy Carmichael classic The Nearness of You.

A gorgeous ballad I'm trying to pay justice to.  Lost my place in the coda when the piano track dropped out, but the rest of the take is really good so I'll just live with it until I can record the coda again..

The Nearness of You (SotW TotM 2018-12

SotW - TotM - 2018 - 12 - Nearness - Fixed

Standard Standard, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise  tenor take.  

Memorized, i.e. no sheet music.

SotW - TotM - 2019 - 01 - Softly - Tenor

THis is the ballad You Are Too Beautiful, and I'm trying to dispel the notion that you don't play a ballad on Soprano Sax.  Sort of Successful.

SotW - TotM - BI - 2019 - 01 - You - Are - Soprano

Fat Tuesday 2019 Live

After Youve Gone

Live recording on Fat Tuesday 2019 with Mile High Dixie

All of Me

Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man. A fun 16 bar blues on my new soprano setup.

JK - Watermelon - 2020 - 05 - BI - Sop

The "standard of standard" Jobim tracks, the Girl from Ipanema.

I'm further along on Tenor (5+ years) than Flute (6 months).

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The Girl from Ipanema

I am now a formally "un-retired" saxophone player.  After a break for life and stuff I'm relearning to play once more. 

All tracks are a definite work in progress from someone who started playing again in June of 2015.  

John Kotches

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