This is my regularly updated practice log, mostly for accountability with my saxophone practice. Below you can see my practice for the week. If you’d like to check it out, here’s my goal list of tunes for the year.
Having gotten a good handle on “Fly Me To the Moon,” I’ve selected my next tune for my study project: “Four.” It’s a tune I’ve known of for years, with early exposure due to my interest in the music of Miles Davis right when I was starting to get into jazz as a teenager. (Here’s an early, slower-tempo version by Davis. In my experience the faster versions are sometimes sloppy, but this one is crisp and tight. I like this up-tempo take by Phineas Newborn, too.)
I’m also kinda-sorta working on “Skylark,” a beautiful tune by Hoagy Carmichael that I’ve liked for many years now. (Here’s a Dexter Gordon take on the song.)
Below, you can see a log of my practice sessions for the week.