I'm Adam Anas and I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the Yule Herein podcast.

Daily Jazz advice.

Coming at you.

That's right. What do we got coming at us today? We have a very, very, very, very, very special guest, Mr. Steve Wilson. What's going on, Steve? Hey, great to be here, fellas. Great to have you.

Yeah, back to St. Louis. Yeah, that's right. Steve Wilson, um, saxophone royalty in the house today. We're excited to have you. We just

finished up recording your new course, jazz saxophone fundamentals. And look, we put the name out

there, so that's it. If there was any uncertainty before, that's all got to be gone now. That's

right. It's in stone now. That's right. But we thought it'd be fun to have you on the You'll Hear podcast and talk about your seven. Like we were telling you, we love to talk about, we're all about the sevens. We're all about the lucky sevens. Right. But we ask you for your seven select. We're going to call them seven selected saxophones because there's a lot of s's in that, like snaky saxophone and all that.

Steve, seven, selected saxophone.

And as we were talking, you said that these are not your favorite or the best or whatever.

These are your selected.

So I think this is a great list you have.

And if you'd like, maybe just go ahead and kick it off with number one yeah well there are seven of my favorites for sure Johnny Hodges well I

will say unequivocally is is the favorite my favorite saxophonist I got

hip to Johnny Hodges my first year in college and I was very lucky because our director and my mentor,

Doug Richards, turned us on to the music of Duke Ellington.

And we were playing a lot of those charts from like the 1930s at Daybreak Express,

the Mooch, East St. Louis Tudoloo, a lot of the oldest stuff, along with an extended piece he had called a tattooed bride.

Oh, you went to one of those hip schools.

Yeah, it was very hip. It was really hip.

And, man, that was just, it changed my life. It changed my saxophone life.

...