![]() ![]() He is one of my still living idols….His playing sounds so easily and clear, it is a pleasure to follow his melodic ideas on any standard tune. ![]() I am sharing your opinion, Max Ionata is an underrated artist. Hope you enjoy this short solo! Thanks to Max Ionata for his incredible tenor sax playing that always brings a smile to my face! Do yourself a favor and check out Max Ionata’s website as well! If you appreciate the solo and Max Ionata’s playing please feel free to say so in the comments below………. His tone is lush, dark and full of character and his swingin’ lines are as smooth as butter. Max Ionata has a tenor sax tone from heaven in my opinion and his jazz playing is equally as beautiful. If you don’t know Max Ionata’s tenor sax playing, please check out these recordings and Youtube videos of his. I have posted other transcriptions of “But Not for Me”, Home At Last, You’re Driving Me Crazy, Parole Parole, as well as a solo of his on a minor blues with Dave O’Higgins. There is no better etude to study than that! Play it over and over trying to match every note, every articulation, every bend and nuance. Sing along with it by memory, hum it while you are walking and driving. I typically get a few emails a month asking me about what jazz etude books to get and most of the time my response is: Transcribe or take a transcription like this one that you love, and master it! Listen to the recording over and over. Even with all the accents and short notes, it still sounds incredibly smooth and flowing. This whole short clip is full of all sorts of articulation but it never sounds forced or rushed. I am also a big fan of Max’s jazz articulation style. He makes them sound so fluid and swinging! (I wonder if this is due to his mustache….) Besides being one of my favorite tenor sax players, I believe that Max Ionata is also the king of bebop triplets in my mind. Listen to the informal video below and notice how effortless and flowing Max’s lines are. Max Ionata’s Inspiration CD (One of my favorite recordings) Max Ionata plays with a perfect blend of hip jazz lines, crazy technique, a swingin’ time feel, a melodic concept that is so easy to listen to and a tenor saxophone tone that is out of this world! I absolutely love this short rendition from Instagram of the melody of “I Remember You” with Max’s signature bebop lines weaved within the spaces. Trust me, if you want to improve your jazz feel, the best thing you can do is to listen to and play along with Dexter Gordon.Here is another swingin’ melody/solo by the great tenor saxophone player from Italy, Max Ionata. This is a great solo with some incredible lines and those iconic “Dexter”melodic cliches that are well worth learning. He had a fat, full and robust tenor saxophone tone and had a way of laying back on the beat that was ridiculously cool! Most tenor player’s can pick out Dexter Gordon’s playing with just a few measure of playing. He had a unique sound and tone that was all his own. If you don’t know who Dexter Gordon is, he was an iconic tenor saxophone player who was one of the first to play bebop on the tenor saxophone. ![]() I clicked on the video and agreed with the person that sent the email that this was an amazing solo that should be transcribed. A couple of months ago I received an email asking me if I could transcribe Dexter Gordon’s solo on “You Stepped Out of a Dream” from the Youtube video below with Dexter Gordon and Oscar Peterson. ![]()
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