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Jazz

Info and Resources for Jazz Musicians and Jazz Lovers

If you’re a practitioner of jazz or simply one of those wonderful, valued listeners whose appreciation for the art inspires players like me to keep playing, this page is for you. On it, I hope to guide you toward resources that can help you develop as an improviser or deepen your pleasure in listening.Mysax Bear in mind that I’m not a university-level saxophone professor. However, after over forty years of sticking with the horn, I’ve got a few things to share. This page will likely grow at a slow pace. Keep your eyes on it, though, as it’s here with your benefit in mind.

Contact Info

Looking for a standout jazz combo for your wedding reception or special event? Need a sax man for your gig, concert, or recording project? Give me a shout. Email: storm at stormhorn dot com Phone: (616) 540-5420

Sample Tracks

Click here to listen to some samples of my playing. Please cut me some slack with “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To.” In the future I’ll replace it with something current and considerably better. The “Rhythm Comedians” and “Troll’s Blues” tracks are pretty decent, though; they just need to be supplemented with a few tunes from the American Songbook. So whether my sharing these samples at this point works for me or against me is up to you, but for now, they at least give you a little something to listen to until I can make improvements.

Stormhorn Posts on Jazz Theory and Technique

Following are links to blogs I’ve written that deal with theoretical and technical issues of specific interest to jazz students and practitioners. Some of the older posts acquired formatting glitches when I switched to WordPress. I don’t have time to fix them all, but I think the value of the content outweighs the flaws, so I’m putting them out here as they are.