When Sunny Gets Blue, Ballad on Tenor Sax

[@rayszymarek2920]

Just heard you playing this. You have made my day. What a wonderful interpretation of this Standard Jazz Tune. Play this sound on any radio station today and get rid of Heavy Metal and Rap and we will once again learn to Love Music the right kind of Music. thank you

[@dougmoran3340]

Superb. If only my sound was of that quality.

[@solomann940]

Hey Mathew, great playing

[@craig9140]

Nice tone and great song

[@helio1764]

Matt, this amazing tune, as always impeccable interpretation. Thanks for all the videos of 2012 and Happy New Year. Hugs from Brazil in particular this your fan.

[@hammer44time27]

All I want to do is sit and listen to you play. Love it.

[@matthewstonesax]

Thanks, I record the sax on top of a good quilty backing track into Apple Logic software. I am videoing myself doing this on a digital camera. The resulting video is muted, and the audio file from logic is added to this as a soundtrack.

[@matthejd1]

Hey I just wanted you to know, if it is the last thing I do in my life, it will be to play that song, mimicking your arrangement ! Just beautiful man. Beautiful. Peace.

[@timothylee8935]

loved this piece never mind about improvising to mutch I love your tone I like to keep to the melowdy and it sound great

[@1949clayton]

Beautiful playing of a beautiful song. I have an Otto Link Tone Edge 7* and I can't get it to sound the way you do. But I'll keep trying after seeing/hearing the sound you're able to coax out of it. Thanks for putting this song up.

[@edwintrue]

I love this so relaxing

[@TheCybertiger9]

very nice

[@matthewstonesax]

Hi Ian, good to hear from you, and thanks. Yes, I use logic express too, its great, have you found that adding a little compression works wonders to the sax? Not too much... but it makes it stand out a little more. This is a Hal Leonard play-along, part of a set that makes up the real-books. Amazon sell them for about £16 a set of three CDs. Four sets make up each real book (Vol 1+2, no music included). So I guess I spent £100+ on them, but well worth it for practicing.

[@greenimpencilus6190]

A saxophone playin' fool named myself would really love some sheets!

[@IanBoyterJazzsax]

Hi Matthew, yes I found that a touch of compression improves my sound. I'll have a look at the Hal Leonard material. I use mostly Band-in-a-Box Real Tracks to make my own backing tracks. I was using Aebersold before that. I'll maybe Ebay my Aebersold stuff and buy some Leonard. Happy New Year!

[@matthewstonesax]

Hi Chris, this is a stock Otto Link Tone Edge 7* with a rico jazz select 3M filed reed.

[@IanBoyterJazzsax]

Hi Mathew, Nice job! I use Logic Express to record and combine my sax stuff too. Are you using Aebersold backing tracks?

[@steve9014]

how do you get such amazing quality sound on your videos? do you use any editing software? love the music. long time subscriber, love your stuff!

[@gobasile1]

love that ! so relaxing :) what's your sax ? It looks like a selmer no ? and what's your mouthpiece ? Thanks for this vid :)

[@pablopadin5832]

Incredible smoth sound!!!! Thanks for sharing! Can you tell me what microphone do you use?

[@arturbrito8095]

Can you put ur setup in ur videos? Thx. Sorry my bad English.

[@anaga]

What is your micro and software?

[@Blackhatsax55]

Matthew may i ask what mouthpiece your using.

[@robertgay7876]

How do u that wispy tone...Is it the reed.?

[@carlosmendoza6820]

Its called subtoning. lots of technique videos up on youtube if you wanna try it

[@getzfan1]

Matt, you get a very nice sound from that Link. What happened to the Jody Jazz you were using awhile back? What horn are you playing?

[@medicalinterest9091]

Hi Mathew, Stan Getz and Paul Desmond are coming through you. I love your voice like interpretation. Sonny Stitt destroyed this song.

[@rudygtrz]

I like Paul Desmond's rendition better.