(I cannot for the life of me remember who the student was but wonder if it was maybe Kenny Brooks as he went to NEC in 1988 I believe…….but I don’t know for sure). I remember being at Berklee and a recital was happening that week that a tenor sax student from NEC was playing on. I was probably in 9th grade at the time and sorry to say a bit to young and unseasoned to appreciate what I was hearing on Saxophone Colossus……….Ībout 4-5 years later, in college, I got into Michael Brecker and bought a tenor saxophone. I had been mostly listening to a combination of David Sanborn, Spyro Gyra, Hank Crawford and Chuck Mangione. I remember trying to get into it, but it was so different than the “jazz” I had been listening to at the time. I didn’t play tenor saxophone back then but I was interested in anything having to do with jazz so I checked it out. My first recording of Sonny Rollins that I heard as a teenager was “Saxophone Colossus”. *I posted all the recordings I could find on Youtube that go with this transcription book at the bottom of this review………Enjoy!
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