Watching and listening to live instrumental music can be quite refreshing for people after a long day at work.
Playing my saxophone live at gigs has always been an avenue for me to explore music and improvisation on various levels.
I used to play predominantly at themed dinners and Corporate events, because my kind of music always brought a classic or jazzy feel to the event.
The genres I play span from pure jazz to afrobeat, folk music, salsa, jazz in the various modes, a little hip hop and musicals.
I didn't play so many gigs in recent years because of medical school. But I still managed to pull out time for them.
More recently though, since the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic, I have had less gigs to play at.
Most of the time I play as a one-man performer with my pre-made backtracks or I go along with @peulzcraft, a skillful keyboardist and producer who understood my style.
Here, I was recently invited for a Wednesday jazz night at a popular Cafe in Ibadan city - Café 24.
I was given 3 straight hours to perform and I performed jazz, soul and hiphop all through, nonstop.
The performance was well received, though the audience wasn't much (probably due to COVID).
The video shows snippets from music I performed.
Enjoy it!
Saxophone: Proel Eflat Alto Saxophone
Reed: Rico 2.5 (Modified)
Mouthpiece: Generic Jazz Metallic mouthpiece
Microphone: Classic A3 Horns Microphone
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Amigo Buena presentación felicidades! aveces presentarse en vivo no es fácil, en mi caso siempre doy lo mejor de mi y note que al principio comenzaste un poco débil pero luego tomaste fuerza y te repusiste asi que felicidades sigue así. pd: me hiciste recordar cuando tocaba el (Alto) hace años..
Muchas gracias.
Fue una actuación de 3 horas sin parar.
Hubo períodos en los que hubo algunos con más energía que otros.
Probablemente hubiera habido más participación si hubiera tenido a mi pianista conmigo.
Gracias por el comentario.
Words fail me!
It's like you speak my language with the sax.
Exactly my kinda music.
Kudos
There's no way we ain't gonna jam at this rate. Thanks man.
No way o!
Very soon
Make this MB comot way first
Yeah... Sure
Hope preparations are going well.
Trying to try my best
Respect for you senior man.
Your thumbnail is always attractive.
Keep firing on.❤
Thanks a lot brother!
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Café 24?
Ibadan?
This is bodija right? The street opposite Plat'num
Weldone boss 🙌
Yes, you're quite right.
Dr Aysax you are very good at what you do, you look so cool playing the sax while seating. I like the fact that u know the kind of tunes and genre that your audience will enjoy
Thank you so much brother.
Seeing people enjoy what music I make is one of my greatest joys.