Soprano Sax Talk (Substack Edition)
Sam NewsomeSam Newsome is a soprano saxophonist, writer, and educator exploring the intersections of jazz, creativity, and personal transformation.
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Why Do Jazz Journalists Sometimes Miss the Point?
Let me start here.
I have a great deal of respect for jazz critics. I’ve been fortunate—more often than not, they’ve been generous in how they’ve engaged with my work. So this isn’t coming from resentment or some lingering grievance.
But...
The Voice That Ruins Everything
There’s something I’ve been watching lately. And let me just say that it’s not solely because I enjoy it. I’m not sitting there with popcorn, grinning at human tragedy. If anything, it’s closer to the feeling of slowing down at a car accide...
Debunking the Jealousy Narrative
There’s a quiet pressure that comes with taste.
You hear someone everyone loves. Someone “important,” or “undeniable,” and you wait and wait for it to hit you the way it seems to hit everyone else. And guess what? It doesn’t.
And unfortun...
We Keep Graduating Music Students Into a Lie
As graduation approaches, I’ve started asking my students a simple question: So what are your plans?
Most of them hesitate.
Some offer something loosely formed, “I’ll probably try to find a job.” When I press further, what kind of job, th...
Where Your Sound Actually Lives
There are probably very few professional saxophonists on the planet who haven’t fallen into mouthpiece obsession at some point. Guilty as charged. I remember being in my early-to-mid twenties, still a young tenor player, switching mouthpiec...
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I’m Sam Newsome—an improviser, sound experimentalist, and an observer of life. This Substack is an ongoing meditation on music, creativity, the world around us, and the lifelong work of becoming. I welcome you to take this journey with me.
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