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
Poor Alto Saxophone has to go to the instrument hospital. Two lovely, very cuddly but crazy black and white kittens knocked him off his stand. Some keys no longer work and a bent bell is not a good thing when trying to perform or teach students.
Hope Octave Above Huddersfield can sort him out soon please
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Check out the new Soulutions website with new recordings, photos and information:
www.thesoulutions.co.uk
Great live band for a wedding, function or party. You are always in for a fun and entertaining night with soulful covers of great classics.
Based in the North East of England and Huddersfield (West Yorkshire) but are available for hire across the UK.
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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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I recently purchased some Rico Plasticover reeds. This is my first try of any sort of plastic/synthetic reeds and so far I've been quite impressed with these reeds.
Hoping for quicker response when doubling instruments in band situations and resisting too much moisture I think these reeds will be a good option to have available.
I hope not to be throwing any of these out due to mould, and they also look pretty cool with the black covering.
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Really enjoyed the first rehearsal of the new Holmfirth Big Band, led by Andy Lowe.
A great group of musicians from across the Huddersfield and Leeds area and a great selection of Big band music.
It was really fun to play some music I've never tried before, including 'Four Brothers' by Jimmy Giuffre arranged by Peter Blair and 'Sam's Boogie' by Sammy Nestico to name a few of the great Saxophone pieces.
I think it will take a few runs through in lessons with my students to get 'Four brothers' up to speed but will be a good challenge.
Very much looking forward to the Saxophone Sectional rehearsal on Saturday 28th January.
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