SNL Closing Theme Waltz in A - Tenor Sax/Piano

A collaboration over the internet by Tenor Sax player Joe Bayer in St. Louis, and piano player Ben Schwartz in Providence, R.I. This is a rendition of "A Waltz in A" by Howard Shore, performed each week during closing credits on Saturday Night Live on NBC, by Lenny Pickett and the Saturday Night Live Band.

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Music

Tags:

• Lenny
• Pickett
• Saturday
• Night
• Live
• Band
• SNL
• tenor
• sax
• altissimo
• waltz
• joe
• bayer
• ben
• schwartz
• piano
• jazz

[proSpiritofTruth]

Since I made the post I noticed that one of you call yourselves beechler7dk, so I gather that you probably play a beechler 7 mouthpiece rather than a vintage stainless Berg. If this is the case, I have lucked out ono that one, since I have never seen a Beechler in New Zealand a real 'Ten Guitars' Nation, with little saxophone culture, but if that was Gerald Albright playing a beechler with Whitney Housten on the solo version featuring a very happy Kenny G in the audience, then beechlers are good

[beechler7dk]

@proSpiritofTruth This is a Dukoff D9 tenor piece. My account is named Beechler7dk because on alto I play a Beechler 7, custom "Dave Koz" model. The BEST alto mouthpiece ever invented! :) These are special orders thru Beechler/Remle Musical Products, and can take quite a while, but the DK models is like Bellite 7 on steroids...TONS of core and power, but yet you can back off of it and get the sweetest alto sound ever. A flawless mp. Stock Beechler Bellites are great too, but the custom, wow.

[proSpiritofTruth]

@beechler7dk is bellite a non metalic material, as I once saw Dave Koz on YouTube play with Danny Young (I think it is Young) the popular Korean (I think) alto player and thought that Koz had a definite advantage in mouthpiece loudness apart from any personal skills, but he seemed to be playing a metal alto mpce on that video.

[beechler7dk]

@proSpiritofTruth Bellite is what Beechler calls their metal line. I'm not sure if it's some sort of specific metal material that's different from others, but just call them if you want more info. Very nice people at their shop. Best alto mouthpieces available, IMO.

[proSpiritofTruth]

Congratulations to both of you, very nicely done.With a good piano and good tenor, one can have a complete performance as in this case.Although the focus is initially on the fact that you are getting the notes,as far as I can see, ne semitone below triple highCon the trumpet. No doubt you are using Berg Larsen vintage stainless mouthpiece, around0.120"/SMS. If you now concentrate on getting the sound which you got between 4:14 adn 1:18 but spread from this lower range over all, that will be it!

[beechler7dk]

@proSpiritofTruth Actually this is a Dukoff D9. I used to play on a Berg 130/0 M. (I find that the M has a better sound than the SMS variants... still has brightness and edge, but more core to it). The D9 sacrifices some low end and overall sound quality, but it has much more power than the Bergs and is a better fit for what I do. Thanks for the feedback.

[sarahDCharman]

Oh. My. Sweet. Goodness. I need to just sit for a bit and try to comprehend what amazing thing just happened.

[karen175]

Okay, We want to thank our musical guest the Foo Fighter! The cast, um you guys for coming out to night! This has been a amazing week! Um if I'm forgetting anyone I'm so sorry, GOODNIGHT Everybody! 

[proSpiritofTruth]

@beechler7dk contd, brass was by far the most unnappealing, and stainless steel the most like sterling silver but no way as good. This means that if modern Bergs are at least as good as the vintage design and are in bell metal (I am not convinced that bronze is equivalent of good old bell metal which cathedral bells are made of) they should be really good at altissimo compared with stainless steel, and in solid spun cast steling silver, unbeatable for sensitivity, like rod rubber in metal.

[proSpiritofTruth]

@beechler7dk I should have known, Bellite is probably some kind of bell metal, like my Otto Link. Thought you might be interested to know, especially since you are right into the altissimo register, that of all of the materials which we copied my favourite design, the vintage J&D Hite, extra fat body rod rubber design, sterling silver, copper, bell metal, stainless steel and brass, that bell metal was by far the best for altissimo, and sterling silver unbeatable for sensitivity and expression.

[proSpiritofTruth]

@beechler7dk I am not surprized that you prefer the M facing as I heard, some thirty years too late, from Ralph Morgan (Of Morgan mpces) that of my Florida Link collection (5*, 7*, **, 9*, 10* and the special 11* (0.145"/1.016") that only the longer facing option offered by the # option were the original tried and true correct tip opening to legnth of facing ratios, which had the longer facing option. I compared a #6 to a 6* once and the #6 was quite a lot better, so you can feel good about M's.