• Keep Taking Ground Saxophone Podcast

  • By: Jesse Ryan
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Keep Taking Ground Saxophone Podcast

By: Jesse Ryan
  • Summary

  • A new and exciting podcast for the professional and aspiring professional saxophonist, that features 30minute conversations with in-demand and award-winning saxophonists from around the world and across jazz and contemporary styles. Music is a living, breathing art-form that is kept alive by the innovators, composers and musicians that dedicate their lives to learning, creating and sharing the music they love. I believe that even in this age of easy access to information and hyper-connectivity there is still, no doubt, a gap between the professional and aspiring professional musician that isn’t always closed by mere practice, time or earning a degree. In-demand and award-winning saxophonists know something that the “rest” of us don’t, and that’s what I’m curious about.

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Episodes
  • S2 - Ep24: Special Episode | "P. Mauriat Saxophones" with Jeremy True
    Dec 6 2023

    For our finale episode of the season, I chat with the brand manager for P. Mauriat North America, Jeremiah True. Playing saxophones, clarinets, flutes, and bassoons, he is a reed specialist and has performed with Donnie McCaslin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Bobby Watson. We discuss his experience with burnout as a college music student, his transition from the military to the instrument retail industry, P. Mauriat's saxophones as an affordable choice in the market and their upcoming product line.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • S02 - E23: "Ear-Training for Improvisers" with Grace Kelly.
    Nov 29 2023

    This week I chat with singer, songwriter, educator and saxophonist prodigy Grace Kelly. Recognized as a millennial jazz influencer, she has performed with legends late Dave Brubeck Lee Konitz and Wynton Marsalis, to name a few. She co-founded the online saxophone school Saxy School and is the youngest trustee on Berklee College of Music's Board. We discuss the impact her early music teachers had on her, studying with saxophone legend Phil Woods, and how ear-training is the key to growth as an improviser.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • S02 - E22: "Exploring Caribbean Rhythms and Jazz Harmony" with Jacques Shwarz-Bart.
    Nov 22 2023

    This week, I chat with recording artist, educator and bandleader, Jacques Schwarz-Bart. Born in Guadeloupe, Jacques played a key role in neo-soul and Creole Jazz movements, collaborating with artists like D'Angelo and late jazz legend, Roy Hargrove. We talk about incorporating Caribbean Rhythms into your improvisational approach, teaching at Berklee College of Music, his work as the pioneer of the Gwoka and Voodoo Jazz movement and more.

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    1 hr and 20 mins

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