tenor saxophone

Brad Linde is a tenor and soprano saxophonist based in Washington, D.C., where he’s known as “the capital city’s contemporary cool king” (Giovanni Russonello, Capitalbop).

The North Carolina native regularly performs at the Sharp Nine Gallery, the Cave, and other venues in the Triangle. 

Brad spoke with host Xara Wilde and guest co-host Peter Burke of Locavore Jazz in Carrboro a few hours before his performance at the Cave in Chapel Hill. The quartette (featuring Danny Grewen on trombone, Casey Toll on bass, and TJ Maiani on drums) paid tribute to Eli “Lucky” Thompson (1924–2005), a tenor and soprano saxophonist known for incorporating swing and bebop elements into his music. 

The interview also took place during the 46th Carolina Jazz Festival and 17th North Carolina Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival (February 16–18, 2023) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Brad had just returned from the Elon Jazz Festival with Georgetown Day School, where he’s the director of jazz and creative music. 

Brad is the founder of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra, a 17-piece big band. He studied music at Elon University and UNC–Chapel Hill for his bachelor’s, and he earned a Master of Music from the University of Maryland, College Park. 

(Episode photo by Joe Crocetta)

Music credits

This episode features the songs “Just One Of Those Things,” by the Brad Linde Ensemble with Lee Konitz (BRADLEE, 2021), and “Ball Poppin,’” by Brad Linde’s Team Players (Just the Tip: Swinging Songs by Team Players, 2022). 

This season features the songs “Forged in Rhythm” and “Callous & Kind” byKeenan McKenzie & The Riffers (2017), used by Six Count with permission from the artist. 

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On today’s show, we will travel to sunny Florida to chat with the USA Today and Amazon bestselling author Dan Petrosini! 

A fan of books and films that have twists and are difficult to predict, Dan crafts his stories to prevent readers from guessing correctly. He writes every day, forcing the words out when necessary, and has written over twenty-five novels to date.

Today’s show is for you crime writers who want to up your game!

In today’s episode we discuss:

·      Dan’s favorite quote, “The price of discipline is always less than the cost of regret.”

·      Dan’s other career as a musician playing the tenor saxophone and the similarities to being a musician and an author.

·      How he gets his police facts right.

·      Dan’s successful marketing plan.

·      How he became a USA Today's Best-Selling Author.

·      The importance of series, especially a “flagship series.”

·      His experience with audiobooks. 

·      Why he is a self-published author. 

All of this and more on today’s episode of the Cops and Writers podcast.

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2021 Saxophone Year In Review for HowToPlayTheSax.com

We've had a HUGE year in 2021 at HowToPlayTheSax.com

In this podcast we look back at the milestones, the achievements (both for us and our students of all ages from all over the world), the saxophone lessons, the stats, the facts, the figures, plans for 2022, and more.

To all our Members - you are AWESOME.  Thank you for a great year !

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Welcome to the fifth episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. 

Our guest on the show today is Meilana Gillard, an impressive tenor saxophonist and composer, originally from Ohio but based in Northern Ireland since 2012. 

We talk about her multi-instrumental approach to composing, her early experience of playing in a big band in her Junior High school, the importance of this early influence and the "if you see it, you can be it" mentality that is so importance for young girls and women.

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"Gillard is a gutsy, inventive player with a forceful melodic sense and an open, old-school tenor sound." – Cormac Larkin, IRISH TIMES

Ohio-raised saxophonist and composer Meilana Gillard emerged as a rising star on the New York scene while studying at the New School in the early 2000’s. She has worked with U.S. icons Charli Persip, Christian McBride and also Greg Osby, who released her debut album “Day One” on his ‘Inner Circle Music’ label in 2009. In addition she has collaborated with Debbie Reynolds, Glenn Campbell and was instrumental in the New York all-female band DIVA.
Based near Belfast since 2012, she released her second album “Dream Within a Dream” in 2017 on Lyte Records.
She performs as RGB Trio with Kevin Brady and Dave Redmond since 2019. 

Improvised Music Company (IMC) is an Irish Arts Council funded resource organisation for Irish and Irish-based jazz musicians, and a specialist promoter of jazz, improvised and ethnic music in Ireland.  

BAN BAM is an activity which began in 2017 to develop and support the work of women in jazz and improvised music, particular female instrumentalists and composers which are underrepresented in this genre.

As well as this new podcast series, BAN BAM activities in 2020-21 includes the Commissioning Award from IMC in partnership with Moving On Music. Performances of the new works will be announced later in 2021.

The next BAN BAM Commissions will be awarded in 2022.

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Our podcast theme tune is a track by Irish jazz artist Justin Carroll's Togetherness. 

In this episode of the How To Play The Sax Podcast we explore the main types of saxophones that exist.

Yes, there are many different types of saxophones, but really there are only 4 main saxophones that most saxophone players actually use - Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone and Baritone (some times known as Bari) Saxophone.

We listen to three of these 4 main types of saxophones and have a bit of a chat about each one.

This episode may help you decide which saxophone you might like to learn and play.

If you would like to see these saxophones in action, please visit the blog post at : https://howtoplaythesax.com/how-to-play-the-saxophone/types-of-saxophones/

And - for more saxophone hints, tips, tricks and saxophone lessons, visit HowToPlayTheSax.com