ok, now i do have to admit this..I sat in on sax with a singer last night, she works w/trax and was doing "Higher and Higher" and I have to admit it was a lot of fun running all the modulations...as it is soemtimes fun to do Mack the Knife and Beyond the Sea and such.
In fact, a guitarist has been sitting in with me regularly (I lay $20 gas money on him when he does) and instead of having to use the transposer, i let him do the chords and i play rh Vibes lines..try to get a semi-Shearing sound on the heads, and just
interlace around him. It's more fun when i don't use the transposer for that, and I just play in the called key. But if i had to play left hand, I'd need to go back to the
transposer. Simpler tunes I could get by in
F, G, and Bb without it, but just barely so I'd rather use the transposer to sound best.

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Miami Mo