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Title: A Sax Lesson With Ernie Watts....
Review: Unquestionably the best book for a saxophonists, or really any jazz instrumentalist, to buy. I've bought many and this is only one I keep coming back to. The book is organized as lessons, one by Ernie Watts, one by Lenny Pickett, each with some text, some sheet music, and a recording of the actual player playing the lesson. The lesson by Watts is killin..... you see the music on paper .... OK, that's cool, but to hear him play this stuff is amazing - an apparently simple triad exercise turns into an killin jam, playing nothing but the triad exercise!... - and he plays a lot of different exercises (including one Trane used to play!)- enought to keep me working for months. What would an actual lesson with Watts cost - $60 or up - and here you get an extended lesson, on CD, for $20.00. A no brainer. The lesson with Watts is great, and the next one is on altissimo playing with Lenny Pickett. A great book.
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