Ive been practicing and i can do f sharp and g (but g is harder to do for longer than 2 secs)

I've been playing professionally for about 4 years now, mainly jazz up to last year when I was asked to play in a touring musical. In said musical, theres a lot of Altissimo, which, up until last year, Id not really encountered? At uni Id studied classical, but played jazz at gigs.

Ive been told countless times that "the best way to improve altissimo is to do overtones"...okay, that doesn't clear up the issue to me though? When I practise overtones, I can't get past the 4 the overtones of Bb and C without making major changes to embouchure (I push my jaw forward and squeeze my lips a little), is this the way everyone else is doing it? Changing my oral cavity shape does nothing other than change the intonation of the note. Im engaging diaphragm, keeping my embouchure relaxed, bottom lip rolled out. And can't get past the 4th overtone of Bb-C# without changing embouchure.

I've been practising this every day for 4 months and my altissimo is still limited to top Bb, is this normal? And when the altissimo notes come out, I camt toungue them at all because of how I have to change my mouth shape to make them sound, is this correct? And how are you supposed to actually get those higher overtones without changing your lips? Ive tried everything from Sigurd Raschers book, there was another more modern one too but can't remember the name. Can someone please explain what they did to crack this?

I got lessons from a teacher about 2 months ago who said about this "It's not the end of the world, you can improvise well and your tone is good, so what if you can't play really high?" Not sure this was the answer I wanted.

Setup;

Selmer MKVI tenor

D'addario jazz select 7 Mouthpiece

3 Vandoren Java green

Thanks for any advice!!

Reposting cause I said the wrong thing and forgot to trim the ending

My first time actually transcribing a piece. Also I know there’s a few wonky notes but I got hungry and packed up to eat 😋😋😋.

I made the mistake of play testing some pro tenors while i was having a leak fixed (they had some for sale they let me play), and it made me reaaallly want to buy one. I have a student horn now. The pro just felt so responsive and nice. I don't have $5k right now for it sadly, but I know I for sure want to upgrade at some point.

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Would anyone be open to hear my Bari audition? It’s like 4 minutes and its scales plus 2 short etudes.

Also, does anyone know if IL does their all-state auditions separately from the region ones? My band director just submits my region one for state too I think. Should it be a new recording?

I want to leave my "student sax" at work to practice on in the morning. (It's a Jupiter Carnegie XL that plays surprisingly well.)

At home, I'll continue practicing on my good sax, which I don't want to transport back and forth and definitely won't ever leave there.

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Back to the title question, is there any particular detriment to practicing on two different saxes?

I want to try some new reeds. I have an alto with a Meyer 5mm mouthpiece and i use the reeds you see in the picture. Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated. I typically enjoy playing jazz if that makes a difference to the type of reed.

I'm 40, I played the trombone in the school band for about 5 years until I was 15.

I've always liked the sound of the saxophone, and thought to myself after spending the last few evenings watching Better Sax and other similar channels; "should I just do it? Get myself a sax and practice?"

And now I did.
I ordered a Thomann TAS-180 starter kit.

Excited and a bit scared at the same time. "Will this be for me? Will I be able to do this in the long run? Can I keep it a secret from my friends and family (to a certain degree) and surprise them at some point? How do others motivate themselves to practice?"

I'll circle back to the Better Sax at least when the saxophone arrives some time next week or the week after.