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Do you love jazz music and are planning to organize a jazz concert? Then you must hire a professional saxophonist. An expert saxophonist not merely play the saxophone but give meaning to the jazz music and if one say that saxophone is the soul of jazz music then there would be nothing wrong in it. Without a saxophonist, jazz music will not only become meaningless but it cannot even start as opening of every jazz concert is done by a saxophonist. No wonder they are in huge demand these days and charging a hefty amount for a single concert. But there is a saying that practice makes a men perfect and to become an expert and professional saxophonist one may need years of practice.

Thus be careful when you are hiring a saxophonist as these days there is a saxophonist in every nook and corner. In fact many young saxophonist are there in the market who had just passed out from a music school and think that they have become a professional saxophonist and people also hire them, thinking it would cost them little. But if you have good taste in music and understand the jazz music then you will never hire such saxophonist. Above all, playing a music instrument between your friends and family and giving a live performance are totally two different things. Entertaining a live audience is not an easy job, you have to catch the nerve of your audience and only an expert can do that.

Thus, you should hire a saxophonist who is versatile, have years of experience and can offer a wide variety of entertainment like soft jazz, jazz duo, jazz trio, or a full rhythm section with vocals and should also be able to play different types of jazz like Straight ahead jazz, Smooth jazz, R & B, Funk, Top 40, Soul, Pop and gospel. It would be much preferable to lookout for someone who has played saxophone on various types of occasion like corporate events, engagements, VIP parties, weddings etc. He should be able to perform according to the theme of the occasion as every occasion needs a different treatment. Basically he should not only be a saxophonist but a performer who can perform in front of every type of audience.

In fact it would be much better if the saxophonist have good amount of experience and have worked with some renowned artist of the industry like Antoine Knight who had performed with renowned artists like Jennifer Holiday, and Yolanda Adams.

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Composed of father and son guitarists, John Eurell Sr. And John Eurell Jr, Sundad is making their name as an acoustic band whose compositions, recordings, and live performances are filled with attractive rythyms, harmonies, and chord changes. The first repertoire is generally composed of finger-style acoustic guitar instrumentals which have been described as’World Fusion, New Age’ and Jam-Band music. Live performances frequently include other great musicians whom Sundad likes to perform with.

Their first CD, Journey To perpetuity, received a first round Grammy designation for 2005 Best recent World Album. The CD debuted at 3, stayed in the Top 50 for six straight months, aired across the usa on over 180 public radio stations, worldwide in Spain, Belarus, Canada, Romania, Australia and Japan and ranked 23 on the 2005 Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart. The CD also received a 2008 first Round Grammy proposal for Best POP Instrumental Album. On Sirius/XM Satellite radio, the track Chets favourite made the Top 40 Most played songs for eleven weeks running ( 2008/2009 ) including 2 weeks at Number One. Sundad also made the Top 40 Most Played Artists for ten weeks straight over that time span.

‘Open Sesame’, the first track on the CD, was featured on NPR’s’All Songs Considered : Open Mic’ where it garnered the highest listener review rating among the eight songs featured – 4.23 out of a probable five. Also reviewers on GarageBand.com voted the track as all time Best Guitars in the World Fusion category – a title which was held for over a year and a half.

John Sr, and John Jr. Love improvising and the prevailing song selection provides plenty of room to breath.

Began to play guitar at the age of 12 and has been playing guitar for over 40 years. His special style of playing and composing comes out of a fusion of all those genres.

In the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s he played with a number of well-known local bands in the Westchester, NY area including electrical Abraham and Satsang. After raising his folks John made a decision to get back into performing and out of that grew the Sundad band.

John Jr. Has studied guitar with his pa, as well as guitarists David Snider and Lou Ubriaco.

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Every sound produced by a musical instrument has a physical explication, the way instruments are created and the type of materials that are used define in a unique way the resulting sound. The sound wave is a transfer of energy that doesn’t imply matter. Within a more theoretical approach sounds are Mechanical Longitudinal Waves. So, musical instruments and Physics are intimately related. How can they coexist?

There is a mathematical formula that actually explains music, starting from the musical instruments and the Physics’ properties. The wavelength of the sound is defined as an interval between two points where the sound doesn’t have a repeated behavior. The period (T) represents the shortest interval where the wave behavior doesn’t repeat. Hence, the total number of vibrations the sound will realize in one second represent the Frequency (f).

Every sound travels at a specific speed depending on the wavelength and the frequency, so the same instrument can produce quite an interesting process. Interference is another thing that must be discussed when analyzing musical instruments and in the Physics context. It is very probable for two sounds to be present simultaneous is the same place at the same time. The effects of combined waves are usually analyzed using the Superposition theory.

To put it in a simple way, imagine two identical musical instruments in a standard Physics experiment. Let’s say they are two trumpets. If they are blown at the same time, on a certain frequency, the result may give you a headache. When the crest of two waves meet the result is usually annoying for the human ear, the resulting phenomena is called destructive interference.

Furthermore, it is good to say that after passing the intersection between the waves they will return to the initial form. Most people have no clue about what it is going on behind the magic of music. The relationship between musical instruments and Physics comes more like a curiosity for most of us, who are ignorant of the rules of Physics phenomena. Yet, such information is crucial for those who make the instruments as such.

The most relevant to our knowledge is the intensity of the sound. This is also part of relationship between the musical instruments and Physics. Our hearing capacities are those that determine the intensity of the sound at a very subjective level. Otherwise, Physics uses a standard scale to measure the way sounds in the surrounding world touch upon our auditive system.