I used to play a silver plated Selmer, and I found the Selmer Metal Jazz mouthpiece to not only give a nice clean jazz tone while being quite easy to play, but it's silver plating matches the horn and looks pretty slick. That mouthpiece also gave me the best intonation I ever found on the Series III horns. At minimum, a "D" or "E" facing is needed to lead. A C* facing might not be enough. Depends on if you're playing with a microphone, the size of the band, the forum, etc. www.saxmaniax.com/sax/as03.htm What you're actually seeing in the pictures is a Selmer Metal Classical mpc, which I do NOT recommend for jazz at all. I find those decent for legit, but not my favorite by any means.

Depends what kind of lead sound you are going for. A Marshal Royal (Basie Big Band 50's-60's) or a Johnny Hodges sound would require a hard rubber medium chambered mouthpiece. I love both of them and I use an RPC mouthpiece. (Saxmpc.com) Wonderful piece. But dont rule out some metal pieces either. Bottom line is most sax players have more mouthpieces than they care to admit. Have fun!