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My practicing changes frequently, based on my upcoming gigs, my interests at the time, and reminders of lessons past. Here’s what I’ve been working on in September 2026. Musicals! I finished my run…

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

For the last few years, while finishing my degree, I have been performing in saxophone quartets on the baritone saxophone chair exclusively. This year, I moved to the soprano saxophone chair, and i…

One of the ways that I work on adding more colour into my lines is to substitute the roots for 9s, like in this post, and substituting the 5ths for either 11s or 13s. The same guidelines apply &#82…

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I was working on Stanley Turrentine’s tune, Sugar, with a student – we were working on the 16th note triplets, and I wanted to find different ways to use it on the horn. For my own prac…

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I’ve been part of ERU-ERA, Ed Lister’s horn-driven funk project since 2015. We go through periods where we play a lot, and periods where we don’t – it’s the nature of working with players who…

I just finished a run of The Great Gatsby at the National Arts Centre, where I performed the Reed 3 book. It’s was a blast – the music was fun, had some challenging parts, and the band …

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New blog post! Here are five recordings, in no particular order, that I recommend to baritone saxophone players as a launching point for their listening.

As I’m sitting here writing this post (with a beer in hand. Haha!), I’ve been outside playing soccer with my daughters, checking out the chickens, bunnies, and hanging out with my family! I’m away …

After getting comfortable with inverting the chords in their most basic form, I then get my students to add the prescribed extensions in place of the least colourful notes in the chord. Most of the…

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Here’s another great selection to transcribe from one of my students! Up to this point, I hadn’t transcribed any Leo Parker, but I’m sure I’m going to dig deeper into his ca…

I was incredibly fortunate to work with the Tango-Nuevo group, Norteño this summer. The group was recreating the music from the recording Summit – a recording of Astor Piazzolla’s music that …

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Shows. Richard Page, a jazz artist from Ottawa

Sometimes as my students get comfortable arpeggiating chord changes, their solos become very vertical – they end up relying on the arpeggios in root position as THE tool to build their solos …

Evan Parker discusses Cecil Taylor, John Stevens, Derek Bailey, Incus, solo saxophone, electronics and ‘The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc.’ For more than six decades, Evan Parker has been a central figure in European improvised music. His career runs from the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Peter Brötzmann’s ‘Machine Gun’ to Incus, the Schlippenbach Trio, the trio with ...

I get asked about my reed storage regularly – probably because I’m usually carrying three or four instruments, so I thought that I would share. This is no new idea by any means, I&#8217…

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My practicing changes frequently, based on my upcoming gigs, my interests at the time, and reminders of lessons past. Here’s what I’ve been working on in August 2026. Musicals – I’ve been pre…

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I finally, after more than a year, got around to putting my jazz posters, photos, and pictures up in my studio. I never realised how much of an impact it would have on my students after just a few …

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

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I often have students who are interested in getting into jazz who haven’t had much experience listening to jazz. This list is what I recommend to students who need direction to start to figur…

August – festival season is over for me, the teaching schedule slows down a bit, and I get a little bit of a mental reset before the flurry of the school year begins. Even though, August is a…

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

YouTube video by Rich Page Music

Zoot Sims’ solo on Mean To Me, from Basie and Zoot (1975), was the first solo that I ever transcribed. I was in high school – in 2002, and my band director (who is a jazz trombonist), r…