Zdenko Ivanusic meets IBMCs – jazz/hip-hop edition is a project made as a collaboration with IBMCs digital label. The album is based on a selection of compositions from my discography and features six producers/beatmakers. Zdenko Ivanusic meets IBMCs project includes eight original tracks selected from my solo albums Lost in HTML, Free Fall, albums Four Odd, Mellow with Donna Lee Saxophone Quartet and Funk Elastic single Soul Face, plus six remixes/remakes made by IBMCs family producers. Continue reading
Conchology (Remastered) by DLSQ
Conchology (remastered) by Donna Lee Saxophone Quartet – DLSQ, was originally released at Four Odd (2005) album. This is fast jazz composition featuring alto solo.
Conchology is available for streaming and download at the online services, check out the most popular at Zivaldo Music. Continue reading
Joe Allard Lesson Interview
This is a lesson – interview with Joe Allard. Joe talks about and demonstrates more or less all aspects of his approach in saxophone and clarinet method of teaching. He also mentions a lot of anecdotes from his professional career as a performer and teacher. Continue reading
Blacbub by Funk Elastic
Blacbub by Funk Elastic, disco – house instrumental. Modern disco/house groove featuring tenor saxophone solo and some funky electric guitar riffs.
Blacbub is available for streaming and download at the online services, check out the most popular at Zivaldo Music. Continue reading
Con Fusion @ Lagano Lagano
Con Fusion – Lagano Lagano @ Aquarius Club, Zagreb – July, 1996
Cijela snimka prvog nastupa Con Fusiona na Lagano Lagano festivalu u Aquariusu. Festival je popraćen i kompilacijom na CD-u, na kojoj su bandovi zastupljeni studijskim snimkama, Lagano, Lagano – Aquarius Records (1996, Reissue 2010). Continue reading
Croatian Army Band Dilema @ KDVL
Croatian Army Big Band performs Dilema, composition by Miljenko Prohaska at jazz festival Proljetna revija jazza in April, 1998 at Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb.
Miljenko Prohaska was famous Croatian composer/arranger and bandleader. He was longtime leader and artistic director of Radio Zagreb Dance Orchestra (the present-day Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra). This band was bigger rendition, called “Sympho” Big Band, with additional bras and woodwinds instruments. Continue reading
Swingers Band – Sretan rođendan @ HRT Live
Gostovanje na Hrvatskoj Radioteleviziji (HRT), Robert Mareković & Swingers Band – Sretan rođendan (ožujak 2019.), live izvedba poznatog hita grupe Fantomi iz 1992. godine. Continue reading
An Interview with John Coltrane by Frank Kofsky
An Interview with John Coltrane – interviewed by Frank Kofsky
One afternoon in November 1966, Frank Kofsky took the train out to Long Island, he was about to spend the day with John Coltrane. Kofsky brought his tape recorder and what we get to hear is the conversation the two men had as they drove through town and made a few stops along the way. Below is video sample from Blank on Blank YouTube channel. Continue reading
From the Gigs (2019)
Pictures from gigs with Freak Out Band, Neki Novi Klinci, Mr. Dynamite, Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra, Tram 11, Swingers Band, Swing Again Band … Continue reading
Saxophone High Tones by Eugene Rousseau
Saxophone High Tones by Eugene Rousseau – A Systematic Approach to the Extension of the Range of All the Saxophones: Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone
Saxophone High Tones by Eugene Rousseau (second edition) is one of the best books covering saxophone altissimo and overtones and you should have it in your library, aside with Developing a Personal Saxophone Sound (David Liebman), Top-Tones for the Saxophone (Sigurd Rascher) and Saxophone Altissimo (Robert H. Luckey).
The book begins with the author’s prefaces to the first (1978) and second (2000) edition, foreword by Claude Delangle and fingering chart for the normal range.
Getting Started
In this chapter there are a few words on saxophone embouchure Continue reading