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Fun Bun
User ID: 8416263 Feb 3rd 6:43 AM
Hey, guy I just played my first Motown, Sam and Dave, Blues Brothers type gig!!! My Yani. 992 was truely put to the test. Boy did it cut!!!!!!! I had a nice dead Alexander DC 3 with a Rico Royale 7B. My backup piece (Yanagisawa 5 hard rubber) is at Jon van Wie getting worked on. So, when ever it comes back I should have a much better mouthpiece. Anyway, We played Sam and Dave, James Brown, a bunch of Motown hits I grew up hearing, and the band took requests from the audience!! The horn section just made up parts for those tunes right there on stage. Boy am I happy I've been working on my ear training!!!!! I really proved to myself that you can play classical and jazz you just have to decide to do it and practice.

Have any of you guys had this kind of experience? If so please share!!!

super20dan
User ID: 7705853 Feb 3rd 8:38 AM
you need a brighter mpc to play this kind of music. get a rico royal metalite if you can still find one(out of production) you wont belive the difference

saxdaddy@napbirt.org
User ID: 0701364 Feb 3rd 10:46 AM
Not since I moved to the midwest, but I used to pay the bills, with just that type of gig, about 3 times a week. You got me missing it now. Talk about a good time. We used to be the housse band for a underground brick bar, in the old part of Savannah, GA called the crossroads. Nnice and dark, and smokey. Brick walls, and dim lighting, man it waas perfect.

RS
User ID: 1314254 Feb 3rd 1:31 PM
I played in a jump blues for about thiteen years. We did alot of early Ike Turner (before he met Tina), early James Brown, Louie Jordan, Wynonie Harris, B.B. King, T-bone Walker, etc., and we would make up background parts on the spot. Any one of the horns who had a good idea would play the riff softly and off mike and the rest of us would pick it up and run with it. Playing jump blues was the most fun I ever had playing music. And saxdaddy--years ago I played a club in Savannah a couple of times called the Nightside I believe. Savannah is a nice little town but I don't think I could handle the steamy climate. D.C. is hot enough.

JCsaxman
User ID: 8026483 Feb 5th 9:33 AM
Fun Bun, I'm a bluesman in NYC. I highly recommend the new Jody Jazz Q for this type of music for Bari. It out plays my Link, Metalite, Berg and RPC. It's an easy MP to play with great subtone and tons of volume.

Fun Bun
User ID: 8416263 Feb 5th 10:11 AM
Thanks, JCsaxman, after playing that gig I deffinatly need a new piece!

Bootman
User ID: 2964484 Feb 5th 3:02 PM
Try the Quantum, Delrin if you want bright or the metal if want bright but with slightly more warmth to the bottom tone. I haave a JVW tweaked Quantum Delrin model tenor mpc which can be too much at time too. It works exceptionally on a Chu tenor.

Fun Bun User ID: 8416263	Feb 3rd 6:43 AM Hey, guy I just played my first Motown, Sam and Dave, Blues Brothers type gig!!! My Yani. 992 was truely put to the test. Boy did it cut!!!!!!! I had a nice dead Alexander DC 3 with a Rico Royale 7B. My backup piece (Yanagisawa 5 hard rubber) is at Jon van Wie getting worked on. So, when ever it comes back I should have a much better mouthpiece. Anyway, We played Sam and Dave, James Brown, a bunch of Motown hits I grew up hearing, and the band took requests from the audience!! The horn section just made up parts for those tunes right there on stage. Boy am I happy I've been working on my ear training!!!!! I really proved to myself that you can play classical and jazz you just have to decide to do it and practice. Have any of you guys had this kind of experience? If so please share!!!
super20dan User ID: 7705853	Feb 3rd 8:38 AM you need a brighter mpc to play this kind of music. get a rico royal metalite if you can still find one(out of production) you wont belive the difference
saxdaddy@napbirt.org User ID: 0701364	Feb 3rd 10:46 AM Not since I moved to the midwest, but I used to pay the bills, with just that type of gig, about 3 times a week. You got me missing it now. Talk about a good time. We used to be the housse band for a underground brick bar, in the old part of Savannah, GA called the crossroads. Nnice and dark, and smokey. Brick walls, and dim lighting, man it waas perfect.
RS User ID: 1314254	Feb 3rd 1:31 PM I played in a jump blues for about thiteen years. We did alot of early Ike Turner (before he met Tina), early James Brown, Louie Jordan, Wynonie Harris, B.B. King, T-bone Walker, etc., and we would make up background parts on the spot. Any one of the horns who had a good idea would play the riff softly and off mike and the rest of us would pick it up and run with it. Playing jump blues was the most fun I ever had playing music. And saxdaddy--years ago I played a club in Savannah a couple of times called the Nightside I believe. Savannah is a nice little town but I don't think I could handle the steamy climate. D.C. is hot enough.
JCsaxman User ID: 8026483	Feb 5th 9:33 AM Fun Bun, I'm a bluesman in NYC. I highly recommend the new Jody Jazz Q for this type of music for Bari. It out plays my Link, Metalite, Berg and RPC. It's an easy MP to play with great subtone and tons of volume.
Fun Bun User ID: 8416263	Feb 5th 10:11 AM Thanks, JCsaxman, after playing that gig I deffinatly need a new piece!
Bootman User ID: 2964484	Feb 5th 3:02 PM Try the Quantum, Delrin if you want bright or the metal if want bright but with slightly more warmth to the bottom tone. I haave a JVW tweaked Quantum Delrin model tenor mpc which can be too much at time too. It works exceptionally on a Chu tenor.