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I’m a professional jazz saxophone player based in Los Angeles. You can check out my music on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, or www.davegoldberg.com
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Tune of the day…Wes Montgomery - West Coast Blues. An amazing example of his thick guitar sound by using his thumb, and his formula for building a solo with single note lines, followed by octaves, and finally chords. Plus just a fun blues in 6 with unique changes. open.spotify.com/track/1xlNWh...

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Tune of the day…Thelonious Monk - Ruby My Dear. Hearing Monk play his tunes solo is something special. It’s like you can hear him thinking what he wants to play next. His slight pauses really bring out the beauty and playfulness in his music. open.spotify.com/track/4SiniT...

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Tune of the day…Stan Getz - Day Waves. Getz at age 45, with Chick Corea (31), Stanley Clark (21), Tony Williams (27). Proof that bebop can be a foundation of any kind of modern playing. Stan Getz sound & Chick Corea’s electric Fender Rhodes go beautifully together . open.spotify.com/track/3cF3fx...

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Tune of the day…Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Skylark. Freddie Hubbard launches his solo with such a powerful entrance, followed by 3 bars of absolutely perfect 16th note bebop. Check out 3:14 - 3:31. Wayne, Cedar, Freddie show what you can do with 8 bar solos. open.spotify.com/track/2lliQn...

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Tune of the day…John Coltrane - Trane’s Slo Blues. If you want to know how to play a blues this is the manual. The logic and development of Trane’s solo is next level. Simple and complex at the same time. open.spotify.com/track/6BJ6CU...

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Self Promotion Sunday…The title track of my latest album is an orginal called The Other Side. Since this is a sax, organ, drums album, it seemed necessary to do a funky blues groove oriented track to pay homage to the Soul Jazz era. Hope you dig… open.spotify.com/track/4OZFEA...

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Tune of the day…Charlie Parker - Embraceable You. With only 3 minutes of recording time per take in 1947, Bird gets right to his gorgeous solo and skips the melody completely other than hinting at it at 1:39. What Bird comes up with here is just special. open.spotify.com/track/3eOW2X...

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Tune of the day…Dizzy Gillespie - The Eternal Triangle. Maybe the greatest sax battle ever recorded between Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. An 8 minute knock-down drag-out slug fest of perfection that just keeps building in intensity throughout. open.spotify.com/track/7mV4Li...

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Tune of the day…Duke Ellington meets Coleman Hawkins - Limbo Jazz. Not sure there is a more joyous recording. If the world’s got you down, just listen to this and everything is ok again. 16 bars repeated over and over never sounded so good. open.spotify.com/track/4mEBuV...

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Tune of the day…Bill Evans Trio - Autumn Leaves. Perfect example of the modern piano trio breaking traditional roles. The bass can be a counterpoint voice interacting with piano and vice versa. Also the use of silence as a 4th voice if everyone keeps their own time. open.spotify.com/track/6Mh2Ie...

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Tune of the day..Miles Davis Quintet playing Oleo. A reminder of all the different options you have with a standard rhythm section and how you can build that into the form. From just horn & bass, add piano & drums only on the bridge, hits in bar 3&4 on the last A. open.spotify.com/track/05HiUL...

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Ok….I’ve made it over here from Twitter. I just can’t in all good conscience support Elon Musk anymore. He is evil. I know nobody will care…but I do, and that’s all that I can control.

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Happy to announce my latest album is now available on all streaming platforms. Hope you enjoy.

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