Nuvo jSax

The Nuvo jSax:

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While I was on vacation in Amsterdam a week ago I didn’t bring any kind of instrument but just some few hours after landing my urge to play got too big so I started walking around stores to find a saxophone. What I came up with eventually after asking for ”any saxophone” and ”the cheapest horn you’ve got” was the new Nuvo jSax!

img_4366And at first sight it is a pretty cool little horn! You can see right away that it has got the features of a saxophone, and anyone that is familiar with music will spot it as a saxophone. The fingerings is, for me anyways, pretty straight forward. BUT I have to say, I am a bit disappointed about them. I love that there is a G# key, but I would also like to play F# in a ”normal” way and Bb in a normal way. The F# I think could be fixed pretty easily with a rod or something similar pressing down two keys but leaving the hole open.

The horn sounds good! To be at around €100 it is incredible. You can hear that it is a saxophone, sounding like a soprano is has a pretty sweet sound.

Intonation is another matter, some of the notes are really unclear what notes they really are supposed to be, but then, it works like a soprano so the amount of adjusting with pressure or embouchure is not that big. But as a small kid or beginner, it might sound off.

I threw away the standard mouthpiece first thing and replaced it with my standard soprano mouthpiece Vandoren V16 with Vandoren ZZ reeds. My friend and colleague didn’t and had a hard time playing it, and came back complaining to me that it’s a hard instrument. I later tried that ”mouthpiece” and plastic reed that followed in the box but I would recommend anyone a real mouthpiece if even Yamaha 4c with a 1 1/5 Rico reed.

Conclusion:

If you take it for what it is, a small cheap plastic saxophone with recorder fingerings and limited to 1 1/5 octaves and a stupid mouthpiece (but frankly all saxophones come with a stupid mouthpiece) it is a really cool little toy, or first saxophone for beginners, or for people like me that like most portable woodwind instruments.

Köttets lust – Teater C

Just nu spelar vi föreställningen ”Köttets Lust” av Teater C på Köttinspektionen i Uppsala. Det är jag på sax och flöjt, Emil Ingmar på piano och dragspel samt Michael Näslund på gitarr, bas och sång!

”Premiärkvällen innehåller så vitt skilda uttryck som elegant stepp, poetiska prosamonologer, sjuttiotalsschlagers med ironi, högklassig mim, vemodiga visor, vild jitterbugg och blues.”
”Ingen vet hur kvällen kommer att gestalta sig, inte ens de medverkande.”
”I förställningskonceptet ingår också att ingen av de tio planerade föreställningarna kommer att vara den andra lik, att gästartisterna kommer att växla .”

Läs hela recensionen här: http://unt.se/kultur-noje/scen/trivsam-scenlust-4413054.aspx

Boka biljetter på kulturbiljetter.se

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Caius Cat record Reviews

I’ll collect the links to reviews that we get for our NEW Caius Cat trio record here:

”Oskar Forsberg briljerar med sina saxofoner”

Dala-Demokraten

http://www.dalademokraten.se/kultur/musik/oskar-forsberg-briljerar-med-sina-saxofoner

Makma (In Spanish)

Newspaper review:

http://www.makma.net/tag/caius-cat-trio/

Uppsala Nya Tidning (In Swedish)

Newspaper review:

http://www.unt.se/kultur-noje/skivor/overraskande-melodisk-jazz-3990093.aspx

Radui Alcoy (In Italian)

Radio review:

http://www.radioalcoy.com/Home/Player/11666

Zibaldone (In Spanish)

Spanish podcast: at 1.45.00 aprox.

Tomajazz (in Spanish)

UPDATED:

Thank you for an awesome review! Tomajazz!!

our music starts at 00:58:00 aprox and the review is in the beginning!

http://www.tomajazz.com/