You´ll make me cry...
TomMapIsmoke (is spanish, fumo=I smoke)
, Why Sax? I always loved sax but I never had the chance to learn it and money to buy one (what is more imnportant).
I had my folkie age and went for flute and bagpipes. I used to play flute in a tipical spanish band, one of those you can find thousands all over Spain, playing "pasodobles" and tipical brass spanish music (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkS4gOSamQ), I also played bagpipes (the spanish ones, neither Irish, nor scotish) and whistles in a celtic band playing traditional Irish and Spanish tunes (My favourites ones are Paddy Moloney and Carlos Nuñez, two of the best pipers I´ve ever seen. For those interested, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grHOcHIhXr8).
Then kids (3) and a hiatus of almost 18 years. In these 20 years I had a couple of years outr of four I was living in UK in which I started to play the trumpet my son left untouched. In UK I started to listen jazz more intensively mainly because the Staines library had an amazing jazz collection. I left aside the folk and I focussed on jazz and I discover a new world which I´m still enjoying
I stopped playing trumpet when I came back to Spain. It was a very hard time. That was by 2004. And in January I decided to fulfill a dream: playing sax. I was hard to convince my wife. As a matter of fact I didn´t convince her, but I decided to do it. I went to a local music school and I borrowed a sax from them. One month later I decided to buy one. Again a fight with my wife. I sold everything I had (trumpet, pipes) and I did a lot of overtime in my job to get the 2200€ I paid for my sax (Yanagisawa A902). I almost got killed by my wife
Everthing for the pleasure to play the sax.
I´m not a pro, just an amateur musician working in IT.
Last week I gathered another two guys (a tenor and a sop) and we set a trio. I don´t know what will be the outcome of this, but surely I´ll enjoy a lot. With my teacher a play classical. I´m following the book Look, Listen and Learn Vol 1.
Next Tuesday I´ll be playind The Riders March from Indiana Jones and the Riders of the Lost Ark in the concert the school runs every year. Let´s see how it goes. My first public appereance playing sax.
My favourites are Paul Desmond, Johnny Hodges, Art Pepper, Lee Konitz. On trumpet I love Chet Baker, Clarke Terry, Winton Marsalis,Miles Davis, Clifford Brown. I love Duke Ellington.
If the world does not end in 2012, I hope I´ll be playing jazz before I retire.
I´ll keep informed about my Sax Trio.
Well friends...see you around
