spitty sound

Hi everyone. Lately, I've been having a few issues with my saxophone. It started out with my high A coming out really spitty and unclear. This only happens after I play for a few minutes, and I can see spit coming out of the octave key hole (only when I play this note). Then more recently, my...

i have been listening a lot to tenor players like Harry Allen (who has what is, in my opinion, a wonderful spitty-ness to his sound - there are many other players who also achieve this (George Garzone and Greg Fishman come to mind too) - i think that it adds something very special and personal...