Shirantha Beddage’s latest album “Identity”, which we previously mentioned here, has been nominated for a 2013 Juno award in the category of Traditional Jazz Album of the Year! The Juno award is one of Canada’s highest musical honors, and is akin to the USA’s Grammy awards. Congratulations, and much luck to Shirantha, we wish him much success.
In other news, head on over to the transcriptions page to get two new transcriptions submitted by Giles Miton.
Baritone saxophonists extraordinaire, Gary Smulyan and Dennis DiBlasio having some fun playing duets in the Vandoren Studio in New York City.
Check out the rest of the great videos from VandorenTV here!
We have added two new pages, one for Ronnie Ross and one for Dale Fielder.
Any one over the age of 25 might remember seeing this commercial on tv from the 80’s. It is a Miller Lite commercial featuring baritone saxophonist Howard Johnson! Jazz, 80’s, baritone saxophone, what more could you want? Howard is definitely a syncopater of progressive riffs.
PS – JazzBariSax.com does not endorse Miller Lite, or beer in general for that matter.
UPDATE – December 2013, found a print ad for this campaign:
We added some new interesting videos to our videos page, and if you haven’t been here in a while check out the transcriptions page, a few new ones there too! Aaron LIngton’s transcription of Pepper Adams‘ solo on Bossallegro is in the lead with 50 downloads!
If you have a great video to suggest, or a transcription you’d like to add, just contact us!
Check out the updates from the old site: