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@J-Jericho said in Doubling on tenor sax:

@Dale-Proctor The mouthpieces in your Bach Mercedes case look fairly deep... or is that an illusion?

They are what I’d call a medium C-cup depth. The gold one (top one) is a Connstellation 9C-W, and the silver one is a Curry 3C.

@Kehaulani-0 said in Jazz, Blues practice:

Learn the six-note Blues Scale and start playing simple blues with these notes. You'll discover that a basic Blues has only three chords and the Blues scale fits over it very easily.

I started with blues in C, F, G, Bb, Eb and Ab. Amazing that it covered most of what I ever came across in real music. My band has a common warm up exercise. Our piano player picks a key and starts playing. It's up to the players to figure out the key, figure out the progression and play appropriately. I think audiences think we are actually starting our gig at that point. It makes me wonder if we could just do that for two hours and have a pretty nice performance.

Thanks for the information. Do like to customize my horns.

@Gendreauj said in St. James Infirmary:

Looking for a book that contains St.James Infirmary, other songs of that era and genre.

The Creole Jazz Band Fake book, available as a free download has what you are looking for. It is available for Bb, C, Eb, Bass Cleff, etc. If you can’t find this on line, contact me with a private message including your email address, and I will send it to you.