Introduction Greetings Sax Gods & Goddesses

[rebecca]

Hello from rural upstate NY. This looks like such a wonderful community-I'm glad I found you all.
A bit about me-I started out my musical life as a classical flutist, taught in the public school system for five years (and then ran for my life...). I now have taken my music and education separate for five years.
The music side has made the transition from flute to saxophone as I began playing with a blues/rock band three years ago. I initially started out on alto but have found I have more of an affinity for the tenor and now (lucky me) drag a flute, alto & tenor to every gig!
As time has progressed with the band I'm finding I've reached the ceiling on utilizing the similarities between flute and sax fingerings and am now looking to do some serious woodshed.
I'm glad to have the company on this journey. And if I'm as lucky as Al Galladoro (who lives near me) I'll still be playing young cats out of the water at 92!
Rebecca

 

[suethesax]

Hi Rebecca - greeting from a very cold and wet (today anyway) North Yorkshire.

/me runs and hides under the duvet to cosy up

Enjoy your time here 🙂

 

[Pete Thomas]

Hi Rebecca, welcome from Sunny Southampton

 

[Rogerb]

SueTheSax wrote:
Hi Rebecca - greeting from a very cold and wet (today anyway) North Yorkshire.

/me runs and hides under the duvet to cosy up

Enjoy your time here 🙂

It was lovely when I was there, Tues/Wed last week, Sue 🙂

Welcome from warm sunny Costa Blanca!

 

[ken]

Hi Rebecca, welcome to the forum.

Any more info on your blues/rock band? gigs, website???

My ears prick up when it's something other than jazz

 

[Bobby G]

Hi Rebecca and welcome from gradually-getting-brighter-and-actually-quite-warm Welwyn. Blues-rock sax sounds like fun.

Cheers, Bob

 

[rebecca]

blues & rock are definitely good for the soul-although we do have some swing and occasionally a jazz set comes up.
Anyhow we have do have a website-although no sound files up at the moment-but you can check out our rep list.
www.drajicek.com/newsletter (i'm the red head with the tenor!)

 

[ken]

Rebecca, you can be let off for a "little" jazz 8)

Couldn't get the web address to work 🙁

 

[Bobby G]

"The page you are looking for cannot be found" it says here...

 

[rebecca]

sorry about that all.
try www.dkrajicek.com and then theres a link near the top for "my band"
by the way-dave (who's website this is) is a criminal journalist and he write for crimetv.com and has written up a number of musician murders (sam cooke for example)


oh yeah, and i keep forgetting to ask (this place is too much fun..) Pete, could I have access to the extra material?

 

[ken]

Thanks Rebecca,

That look like a real interesting (and friendly) band.

Great repertoire there as well. Hope your planning some soundclips for the site. I'm off to study it a bit further 😉

Ken.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Rebecca wrote:
oh yeah, and i keep forgetting to ask (this place is too much fun..) Pete, could I have access to the extra material?

Yes, should be available now

 

[saxismyaxe]

Hi Rebecca, Welcome!

 

[tengu01]

Hey there Rebecca, welcome to the forum from grey and cold Geneva. Sounds like you've got a good thing going on there in NY.

However, I remember complaining about lugging my alto and tenor to gigs, so I take my hat off to you for everything you carry.

Cheers

Tengu

 

[ken]

Rebecca,

Your CD arrived 🙂 Thank David for me.

Ken.

 

[rebecca]

who knew when the started on the road to musicianship that they would also have to be a pack mule? I take to every gig: one mic stand, one music stand, one flute, one alto, one tenor, occasionally a trumpet, one horn stand, one wireless mic box and one bag which ways at least 40lbs. I haven't yet figured out how a vocal mic, three mic cords, a tuner, a guiro and a waterbottle add up to 40 lbs. ok-it must be the granola bars and ibuprofin.

i pawned the first aid kit duty on another band member-it was too much to carry.