you to use the sheet music Sax Gordon and Andrew Clark prepared, and play
along. Because of the length of the sheet music with this masterclass we included
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ax Gordon and I recorded this project at my house using a Mac Server 63/300, a Audiomedia III card running with ProTools LE software, and a Mackie 1402VLZ mixer. Microphones used were all Shure models: WM98, Beta 58, and a 33-1070D for Gordon’s voice track. THE SHEET MUSIC The sheet music is the individual sax parts written out for tenor and alto/bari. The solos are not transcribed but all the horn parts are. On the tracks sub-titled “no horns” we invite you to use the sheet music Sax Gordon and Andrew Clark prepared, and play along. Because of the length of the sheet music with this masterclass we included only the tenor 1, and tenor 2 parts in this issue of Saxophone Journal. The sheet music for Eb alto and baritone, is available as a free download from our website. You’ll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read and print the .pdf music files. If you need it, we included a link to acquire the Adobe Acrobat Reader browsing utility (not only for Saxophone Journal music, etc., but all internet usage). Please visit: www.dornpub.com/saxjournal/twohornsmusic.html
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TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR TWO HORNS MASTERCLASS By Sax Gordon with Andrew Clark MarchApril 2002 Saxophone Journal Track ........... title ........................................................... time 1 ................... Gordon Speaks ....................................... 03:24 2 ................... about Funky Bradford ............................ 01:52 3 ................... about Hubcap Hop .................................. 02:35 4 ................... about Deadline Blues ............................. 01:43 5 ................... about Sideman Salute ............................ 03:01 6 ................... Funky Bradford ........................................ 03:55 7 ................... Funky Bradford (no horns) ................... 03:55 8 ................... Hubcap Hop ............................................. 04:11 9 ................... Hubcap Hop (no horns) ......................... 04:11 10 ................. Deadline Blues ......................................... 04:47 11 ................. Deadline Blues (no horns) ..................... 04:42 12 ................. Sideman Salute ........................................ 03:45 13 ................. Sideman Salute (no horns) .................... 03:44 14 When the other horn doesn’t show up .............. 07:22 15 ................. ‘A’ concert tuning pitch ....................... 00:21 RHYTHM TRACKS All rhythm tracks were produced by Andrew Clark Bass: Akai EWI3000 layered with an Akai VX600 and a Roland JV 30 Drums: Alesis SR16 (aka Chip the drummer)
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Keyboards: Fender Rhodes Seventy Three, Oberheim OB3 Squared, Roland JV 30 Guitar: Tony Hecht THE TUNES Funky Bradford This tune is reminiscent of the funky Broadway groove and named for the location of Papasax Studios. Hubcap Hop This tune is named after the long running band that Gordon and I were involved with in Cambridge. Deadline Blues This tune was the first tune we started working on for this project and from the beginning we knew we would never meet any deadline now matter how liberal it was. Sideman Salute No, the title isn’t meant as a tribute to those hard working saxophonists toiling away for merciless singers across the country. It’s actually a military style salute that horn players give each other. It ends with your watch in front of your eyes! All saxophone parts were written and arranged by Gordon Beadle. ENGINEERING COMMENTS The guitar was recorded using simulated amplification due to the proximity of neighbors and my sleeping children. We split the signal from the guitar into two tracks. Tony’s pedal board effects unit was put on one track and we sent his clean signal through a software based amp modeler on another track. Because I used MIDI for the rhythm tracks I left those parts as virtual tracks and mixed rhythm section to one stereo track through the Mackie mixer. The other approach would have been to record the audio signals from the synthesizers separately into the computer first and then mix from there. There is a tight slap delay on Gordon’s lead track on Deadline Blues to emulate the production that is sometimes used for vocals. Reverb was applied to most tracks during mixing using my ZOOM 9120 effects processor through the Mackie mixer and the D-Verb plug-in for ProTools. The sound recording was engineered, produced, and mixed by Andrew Clark. Two track mastering was done by Mik Mersha at Anbessa Musica. Mik can be reached at www.miblacksnake.com. Any questions about this production can be sent to Andrew’s email:
[email protected], or visit the website www.papasax.com. Sax Gordon Beadle appears on this CD courtesy of Rounder Records/Bullseye Blues and Jazz. For more information about Sax Gordon Beadle visit his website at: www.rounder.com/rounder/artists/ sax_gordon/profile.html
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SAXOPHONIST ANDREW CLARK Andrew Clark has been one of the Boston area’s most in demand freelance saxophonists since he graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1987. He has performed and/or recorded with the following bands: Andrew Clark Band, The Papasax Horns, SAXATTACK, Gary US Bonds, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, James Montgomery, Peter Wolf, Tom Hamilton, Galactic, Michigan Blacksnake, Bruce Marshall, Two Bones and a Pick, The Love Dogs, Michelle ”Evil Gal” Willson, Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish, Brian Maes, John Keegan and Madhouse, The Search Party, Grapevine Road, 11th Hour, Rick Russell and the Cadillac Horns, Toni Lynn Washington, Boston Baked Blues, Catharine and the Greats, George Gritzbach, Stovall Brown, Hub Caps, Swinging Johnsons, Steve Smith and the Nakeds, Jerry Velona, Jimmy C and the Real Deal, Motor City Rhythm Kings, One World, Part Time Lovers, Sandy Mack and the Heartattacks, Signs of Life, Buddy Johnson with Weeping Willie, Stop Time, Birdbrain, Blue Heaven, Wilbur and the Dukes and many others. Andrew Clark started his own band in 1994 called SAXATTACK, a blues and classic rock four piece with Andrew on tenor and alto sax, vocals and keys backed by guitar, bass and drums. Eventually a second saxophonist was added to the gigs and the band enjoyed the company of many of the New England area’s premier saxophonists, including Gordon “Sax Gordon” Beadle, Scott Shetler, Henley Douglas, Mario Perrett, Mark Earley, Jim Calandrella, Glenn Shambroom, Pete Levesque, Sid the Kid, Cookie Cook, Steve Tully, Chuck Langford and Jeff
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Giacomelli. The band appeared in the finals of the 1997 Battle of the Blues Bands at Harper’s Ferry. In 1999 Andrew released his debut album AC on his own label, Papasax Records. It was engineered, mixed and mastered by Andrew Murdock (Godsmack, Powerman 5000). It received excellent reviews and led to Andrew Clark’s appearance as a featured artist at the 1999 NEMO Music Conference. The band continued to play blues and classic rock standards mixed in with Andrew’s original tunes. During the fall of 2000 the band name was changed to the Andrew Clark Band and the focus of the group turned to funk, rock ‘n soul. Andrew added a horn section called The Papasax Horns, which brought the addition of John Frazee and Andy Cormier on trumpets. Andrew Clark has captured this dynamic new sound on his latest CD, Jaywalking. It’s Andrew’s tribute to two of his favorite saxophonists, Junior Walker and King Curtis. It features songs made famous by these two icons of rock and roll and some new originals, too. It was engineered and mixed by Huck Bennert (Chucklehead) and released on December 20, 2001. Since January 1995 Andrew Clark has been writing for Saxophone Journal, an internationally distributed magazine. His column “Rock ‘n Roll Saxophone” appears in every issue and he has interviewed Angelo Moore from Fishbone, Ben Ellman from Galactic, Joe Sublett (saxophonist with Texacali Horns, Taj Mahal, BB King), Dana Colley from Morphine, Bruce Kapler (saxophonist on the Late Show with David Letterman), David Woodford (saxophonist with Aerosmith, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughn) and Clarence Clemons. Andrew produced a master class CD on playing blues and rock ‘n roll saxophone in September 1999 issue of Saxophone Journal. He has also recorded a children’s CD for Dorn Publications. A short story Andrew wrote was featured in the Gig Nightmare column of the Nov 1999 issue of Gig magazine.
on over 100 CDs, LPs and 45s, recording with many of the legendary performers of classic R&B and Blues such as Pinetop Perkins, Rosco Gordon, Jimmy McGriff, Champion Jack Dupree, Billy Boy Arnold, Charles Brown, Jimmy McCracklin, and Jimmy “T99” Nelson. Gordon’s also been called upon to perform with many of the top artists of Blues, Soul, and Jazz, including Little Milton, Ben E. King, Martha Reeves, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Herb Ellis, Keely Smith, James Cotton, John Hammond, Johnny Copeland, Howard Tate, Hubert Sumlin, Mighty Sam McClain, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Johnson, Sherman Robertson, and Joe Louis Walker. Gordon has performed in Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, Central America, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, all over North America and toured in opening bands for such notable acts as the Rolling Stones, BB King and the Neville Brothers. In 1998 Gordon began recording for Rounder’s Bullseye Blues and Jazz label. (www.rounder.com - artist listing “Sax Gordon”). His first CD Have Horn Will Travel caught the attention of noted critics Chris Morris of Billboard, and Bill Milkowski of Jazz Times. He received the Euro Blues Association’s “Trophees France Blues 98 - International Musician (Divers)”, and performed with his own groups in the USA, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy. His second CD, You Knock Me Out, was released in 2000. Since then Gordon has continued working in the USA and overseas with his own groups as well as with other artists, and has been nominated for a W.C. Handy award in the “Instrumentalist - Horns” catagory for 2001. §
SAXOPHONIST “SAX” GORDON BEADLE Sax Gordon (aka Gordon Beadle) is one of the most indemand sax players in today’s “Blues” scene, both in studios and in clubs and concert halls worldwide. He’s been a featured soloist on both the tours and recordings of great artists like Jimmy Witherspoon, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Roomful of Blues, Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, and Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson. He’s played Saxophone Journal
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