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The video of you doing that solo on Salt Peanuts in Maynard's band is one of the iconic live solos in my book

Denis DiBracketable!

We went for the B7, richer sound!

By the way the B9 its awesome

What's the brand of your baritone saxophone please

I like your list of tunes, Denis. I am playing Cajun Cookin' in the big band, be more gentle on the trumpet section next time, eh. Lol.

I have the V16 M9 (.120 tip like you are using here) on trial from Vandoren in LA. This is for a Conn 12M. Hoping the intonation will work well after the horn is set up properly.

Is it OK that I use a size 6 hr? I've been playing for 6 years.

Professor DiBlasio, As the great Johnny Griffin claimed to be the fastest tenor in the west, you are undoubtedly the fastest baritone anywhere, ever... Which leads to a question ( brought about by the Charlie Parker Omnibook ) which mouthpiece/reed combo provides the fastest response on bari in your experience? Trane complained that once he wrecked his Link with a file he lost velocity ( not detectable by the layman... ). Thanks for yor thoughts. John

thank you ~

Mr DiBlasio for an awkward reason i cannot generate a single phrase on "Watermelon Man" than i can do in more demanding tunes (concering their chord progression, or the rhythmic or the melodic variety that may have)...what might be an explanasion for this one? Many tunes have a "hidden" harmony behind a simple chord progression, that a rookie player might not understand. I mean some tunes are major to minor, within the form...bluesy tunes are more easy-to-handle, while somebody can stick around a blues scale or a very few chords and make solid phrases, in time, expressive and with a nice tone! Thank you in advance.Greetings from Greece!

You r da Man!

Hey Denis! I just wanna say thank you, because you really inspired me to continue pursuing music as my passion. Even though Im still young, I am still inspired to go and teach music myself. I was part of a middle school jazz band when I saw you live. Thanks!

I like the 9 better, it sounds more open to me.

Hi Denis, thank you for this, along with all the online research, have jumped in and purchased the V16 B7 with Vandoren M|O Ligature. We will use on an Antigua Pro BS4042LQ Power Bell Baritone, sweet sounds on that, thanks.

Brilliant! Thank you for your knowledge and amazing explanation :)

gooood! side note. should we pursuit experimenting with tunes projects through Bandhub =) I routinely record six string. Both of us have to get together in bandhub! It'll be fabulous!

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you are someone that I have really wanted to meet for a while now

That's because it's the Same mouthpiece the sizing doesn't change the sound it's just a preference for some players

Good vid. Thanks for posting. Btw, it's "Blue in Green," not "Blue and Green."

More! I like your tone! Love the videos!

Thank you for these videos. They really opened my eyes on some topics. A lot of helpful hints where to steer ones studying.

I'm wondering if you can do a tutorial getting into theoretically how the mouth pieces work and differ sound. I have been playing sax for 5 years now Bari for 2 and I am starting to now really wanna focus in on everything else besides getting the notes right.

Great concepts! lot of work!!! Thank you so much Denis!!!

Your welcome. That is a great little booklet!

Go to Jamey Aebersolds' website and go to the section that says 'Free Jazz'. The entire booklet is in PDF format. It's great and it's free!

Vandoren V16 B9

Sometimes its easier to think of either the singing OR the note the flute plays. Usually I think about the voice first but in this case I would focus on the flute since it wants to jump the octave. Tricky little bugger isn't it?

Rebekah Sorry for not getting back. I'm trying to be more on top of that. The audition will usually have requirements in that regard as you no doubt have found out by now. How did you do?

Good question. Not sure what the best answer is. For me it was always concert when comping on piano. See I play flute also which is in concert and was always used to transposing when playing tenor or bari sax. This came from having to read off the piano part when playing in a wedding band for years.

With regard to learning the chords of a tune, if you play an instrument thats not in the same key as the piano (like an Eb saxophone) which key should you practice the chords in? The piano or your instrument?

It doesn't really matter unless you are seriously thinking about being a jazz pianist. What you want to keep in mind is this. Play the root with your left hand in the bass clef range and with the right hand play the third and seventh with your right hand. With your right hand try and keep middle C as close to the middle of the two notes in your right hand. Good luck!!

What fingers play what chord tones when com ping?

Cristian. Thanks for your feedback. Let me know how your doing in your jazz playing.

I really like your style.. please make more videos

Duke Ellington's 'Caravan'

Man I love the sound of your sax it is pleasing!

I agree with the last comment; I could listen to you all day! I really appreciate all your videos. I just went out and bought Volume 24 myself after watching this one! Thank you!! P.S. Could you make a video on scatting?

Thanks so much for the tips. Which mouthpiece is that?

Hey Mr. DiBlasio, Thanks for this video. I have had JA book for awhile and did not completely understand al lof this information! Thanks for clearing up some things for me.

he came up on stage and played a song with my high school jazz band a while ago.... i wasnt wearing shoes and he gave me the weirdest look. love this guy.

do you have an album? id listen!

Jeez, why do I keep hearing Coltrane when Denis plays out of time? What I guess I'm trying to say is that the out of time ideas still sounded pretty interesting even though they were not in lock step with the rhythm section on the play-a-long track.I'm NOT saying that Trane had bad timing, Lord have mercy!

When Dennis is playing with "bad time" it sounded like ME!

You are cool

As a high school barry player that has to audition for a lot of stuff and who usually doesn't do well on the sight reading portions this was very helpful

I could seriously listen to what you have to offer all day, I'm always trying to improve my skill level. And this helps out a lot because college classes are expensive and unfortunately i can't take an improv class to help me out.

Thank you i have learned a lot.