Based in West Yorkshire Susanna Hewitt offers instrumental lessons to all capabilities while maintaining a busy performance schedule. Available as a session musician when required Susanna also currently teaches Saxophone, Piano and Folk Whistles and plays within a number of professional groups.
You can see Susanna live most weekends playing saxophone as part of The Simon Street Quartet, The Soulutions www.thesoulutions.co.uk and Durham Alumni Big Band who perform all over Yorkshire and the North of England.
Due to progression Susanna is also currently able to offer a limited number of private piano and saxophone lessons to local pupils, all capabilities welcome, especially complete beginners. For more details please email lessons@susannahewitt.co.uk or call 07904 092206
I've recently been getting into some of Greg Fishman's Jazz Sax books: Jazz Saxophone Etudes Volume 3 and Jazz Saxophone duets.
My favourite etudes at the moment are: 'Broadway street' a C blues, and 'Cermak Road' a Bossa Nova and from the duets I particularly like 'North Avenue' a medium swing, and 'Harlem Avenue' a great Ballad.
I like the flexibility of playing Alto or Tenor with the etudes and with the duets, two altos, two tenors or Alto and Tenor gives opportunity and variety of playing with different set ups, and the CDs support all set ups.
The backing tracks are brilliant to play with, whether playing round and round the etude or using it for improvising over the chords the rhythm section are great.
The book and CDs are a great resource for some intermediate/advanced Jazz Saxophone practice, with some useful style and analysis tips at the beginning.
I have thoroughly enjoyed getting into these pieces and I'm interested to try the other Etude volumes and using some of them in my Saxophone lessons.
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