Keith shares how he learned to play blues saxophone without a teacher, a local scene, or even YouTube. From Ray Charles's "The Right Time" to a bootleg cassette tape featuring Muddy Waters and Big Mama Thornton, Keith traces his blues education from Manila in the 1990s — through years of playing in a vacuum — to his current deep dive into blues saxophone through SaxSchool.online and his transcription project: David "Fathead" Newman's "Hard Times."

Along the way, he talks about the honking and growling techniques that define the blues saxophone sound, the challenge of playing blues on alto when most blues is played on tenor, his discoveries of Earl Bostic and Vi Redd, and why he still sings Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" at karao ...