Musical Interlude: Yakety Sax with Boots, Ray, and Chet
It’s been a while since I’ve featured some good saxophone playing here. So, here’s one of my favorites, Boots Randolph. Bonus: he’s accompanied by Ray Stevens and Chet Atkins.]
It’s been a while since I’ve featured some good saxophone playing here. So, here’s one of my favorites, Boots Randolph. Bonus: he’s accompanied by Ray Stevens and Chet Atkins.]
A little Brazilian saxophone goodness to distract from the current American election craziness.
While a quartet at Fellowship Baptist were singing this song, young people at the Boas Novas Baptist Church in São Luís were offering up this praise (one of my favorites).
Our musical interlude comes a little early this week, as I wanted to include this final Christmas number before Christmas. In the US I was often asked “what is Brazilian music like?” There is no short answer to that question, as Brazilian music is highly varied, with each region of this vast country developing its…
MaraBrass is a brass quintet based here in São Luís. Recently I got to hear them play “live and in color”. On the repertoire for the evening was this collection of Bossa Nova classics. Enjoy! ____________________ Did you enjoy this post? Consider making a donation to our ministry in Brazil. As an Amazon Associate I…
Some musical mirth from a recent Western-themed Valentine’s day banquet at our sending church. The artists are my bro Daniel (trombone) and Yours Truly (sax).
Last Sunday the men of our church stood in the front and belted out one of my favorite hymns found in our Brazilian hymnal: Olhando para Cristo (Looking to Christ) This is not nearly the most sophisticated or musically impressive piece we have shared here. There are even times were some (or all) of us…