Casa Valdez Blog: Tons of Useful Jazz Resources

Just wanted to give a shout out to a fellow West Coast musician blogger, saxophonist David Valdez, of Portland, Oregon. His blog, Casa Valdez, has been going strong for a few years, but it just keeps getting better and better.

He posts interviews, rants and raves about reeds (this evergreen topic has made me realize sax players are just as neurotic as singers), links to fake books, etudes and soloing tips, reharmonizations of standards, videos, recordings and much more. A great read -- not just for saxophonists. Dang, by posting this I may lose the cachet of being one of the few women (perhaps only one) reading his blog.