For those of you that have subscribed to receive updates to your emails you have probably noticed that the blog has been quiet for the...

This week I want to shed some light on a rather peculiar album that I haven’t seen discussed very often, it is a compilation of two...

Jane Bunnett has been a fixture of the Toronto music scene for over three decades, as a distinguished soprano saxophonist and flutist....

A while back I had my saxophone adjusted by the great Montreal saxophonist and repairman Al Mclean and one of the things he did was...

This weekend I thought I’d publish something a little different that I wrote a while back as I finish a longer piece I’m working on....

This post was intended to come before my previous post as a primer for Steve Lacy’s ‘Intervals’ exercise but the other post just came out...

This week I wanted to spotlight a saxophonist who I’ve enjoyed for a while for his work with Collectif Paris Swing primarily on alto, but...

Recently, I was catching up on Catherine Sikora’s excellent blog where, each January, she posts a practice idea every day for the entire...

“Swinging on the soprano can be one of the hardest things to do and not have it sound like a high pitched alto or tenor” - Sam Newsome,...

“The saxophone is an interval machine” - Steve Lacy I thought I would make this blog post to follow up and go a little deeper on a...

When I began my exploration of the soprano sax in earnest back in 2020 I spent dozens of hours reading and rereading Sam Newsome’s blog...

This week I wanted to highlight a rather obscure set of compositions written by Steve Lacy in 1983 that I’ve been checking out called the...

Hey! My name is Sean McCarthy and I’m a Canadian soprano saxophonist based in Montreal, Quebec. I’m starting this blog to document my...