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Circular breathing is very difficult on the flute because there is no resistance to the air flow. Hubert Laws is one of the few people I know that can do it. Tell me how many breaths you hear him take in this one:

Romeo & Juliet - Hubert Laws

 

 

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Doing a Billy Strayhorn composition. Billy supposedly wrote this in a hospital bed.

Billy wanted to be a classical composer, but it was back in the days when a black man couldn't get into any college that taught classical composition. So he became a jazz composer, and IMO a great jazz composer at that. I feel sad that he couldn't chase his dream but glad that he left so many great jazz tunes.

An Stan was an amazing sax player. Instead of hearing his monster chops, all you hear is melody so nice it could have been composed and revised for days instead of the fact that it was improvised on the spot.

Blood Count - Stan Getz

 

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IMO three of the best jazz colleges in the US are (in no particular order) Berklee, University of Miami, and  University of North Texas State. Here are the Texans doing a Ray Noble classic. These kids are hot, and so is the guest soloist.

Cherokee - University of North Texas State One O'Clock Lab Band

 

 

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Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 (arr. W. Kanengiser) : V. Fandango Asturiano · Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

This is just one movement. I heard the entire  Rimsky-Korsakov piece by them on NPR and am thinking seriously about buying the CD if available, if not a download and I'll burn my own.

 

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