Sax Player Reggie Padilla Interview

[twocol_one] Where did you go to school? I did my undergraduate degree at Long Island University at C.W. Post, majoring in classical piano and minoring in accounting. During this time, I was studying saxophone as well. I did my Masters Degree at New York University, in Music Education. [/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last] Sax Player Reggie Padilla Located …

What We’re Listening to This Month on Teen Jazz | February 2014

Each month we’re going to feature a few songs or albums that we’re listening to here at Teen Jazz. We’ll showcase the playlists of our host, Shannon Kennedy, as well as a few of our Teen Jazz Artists, Contributors and Influences. We hope you enjoy getting an inside look, and even more importantly, we hope …

A Look Back on 2013 at Teen Jazz

Happy New Year’s everyone! To celebrate the start of 2014, we thought that we would share a few fun facts and accomplishments on Teen Jazz in the last year. 2013 was our first full year since the site was relaunched (we started back up in August 2012). Here’s our very first article since our relaunch, but …

My Tenor Sax Setup

Hey everyone, I thought I’d start something new on Teen Jazz. I share my setup, you share yours? Here’s my tenor setup. Yamaha 875 Black Lacquer Saxophone Kenkase 10 Reed saxophone case made from padauk wood with Jade inlay Rico Plasticover 2.5 Reeds Brancher J27 Gold-Played Mouthpiece, Ligature and Cap BG Mouthpiece pouch Rico Neck …

What We’re Listening to This Month on Teen Jazz | October

Each month we’re going to feature a few songs or albums that we’re listening to here at Teen Jazz. We’ll showcase the playlists of our host, Shannon Kennedy, as well as a few of our Teen Jazz Artists, Contributors and Influences. We hope you enjoy getting an inside look, and even more importantly, we hope …

How to Deal With Negative Criticism

Negative criticism is an unavoidable part of being a performer. As much as we could hope to prevent it, criticism comes with the territory and so learning how to receive it or “handle” it is an important part of being able to succeed in music. During this episode of our Teen Jazz Radio podcast, we …

What We’re Listening to This Month on Teen Jazz | September

Each month we’re going to feature a few songs or albums that we’re listening to here at Teen Jazz. We’ll showcase the playlists of our host, Shannon Kennedy, as well as a few of our Teen Jazz Artists, Contributors and Influences. We hope you enjoy getting an inside look, and even more importantly, we hope …

Back to School Sax GIVEAWAY from Teen Jazz & The Rheuben Allen Education Foundation

Teen Jazz has teamed up with the Rheuben Allen Education Foundation to offer its US readers (between the ages of 7-15) the chance to fulfill their dreams of owning and playing their very own saxophone. I mean, who doesn’t want a free saxophone? The Grand Prize Winner will get a NEW Rheuben Allen “Young Artist …

Teen Jazz’s One Year Blogiversary

The first milestone I’d like to share with you kind of snuck up on me! I had the date set in my calendar and when the reminder popped up on my computer, my first thought was “already?!” It’s amazing that it’s already been an entire year since I revived Teen Jazz and I’m so happy …

Nivo Deux is Holding a Giveaway | Free Music

Nivo Deux is holding a giveaway where 3 winners will have the opportunity to win a gift package including two signed cds and an MP3 of their latest release. I don’t typically use Teen Jazz to post about myself, but today I decided to do a shameless plug to promote a giveaway my band is …