Episode 062 - Steve Neff; Playing and teaching saxophone and jazz improvisation

Steve Neff has been playing and teaching saxophone and jazz improvisation around the New England area for the last 30 years.  He is the author of many popular jazz improvisation books as well as founding the popular jazz video lesson site Neffmusic.com that has over 600+ video lessons on it as well as hundreds of sax related reviews. 

The link to his full biography, along with more Resources for this episode, is on our website.

In this episode, we talked about:

• The one thing you shouldn’t do if you want to keep the gig
• The crazy ear training exercise one of his teachers put him through
• The importance of your mindset in performance and practice
• How Steve got into online education and mouthpiece reviews
• What Steve looks for in a mouthpiece
• Steve’s funny as a brain tumor story
• And a whole lot more!

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