Your favorite songs/artists/albums featuring sax?

**Josh Ryan** · #1 09-19-2006, 10:46 PM

I'm in the mood for it, open to most types of music. Tenor sax being my favorite.

Thanks

Snarf · #2 09-19-2006, 11:52 PM

Stan Getz (underappreciated genius)
John Coltrane
The Rippingtons (Jeff Kashiwa)
Sonny Rollins
Yellowjackets (Bob Mintzer) from probably the early 90's onward

Depth_Charge · #3 09-19-2006, 11:56 PM

Pink Floyd - Dogs of War.
I don't listen to a lot of music with sax.

Peter Squire · #4 09-19-2006, 11:59 PM

Joe Jackson - Body & Soul (amazing sound, recorded in analogue glory in an old church - just wonderful horn sound, and spanking fat bass tone!!)

superbassman2000 · #5 09-20-2006, 12:05 AM

Lester Young has always been my favorite tenor saxophonist

pocket_groover · #6 09-20-2006, 12:12 AM

David Sanborn ...Straight to the Heart (Marcus Miller playing some great stuff)

Mindi Abair

Grover Washington Jr. ...My favorite is the live DVD "Standing Room Only", especially the live version of "Let it Flow". They REALLY rip on this one; you can just see and feel the energy of the band. I've also seen him do this live and this DVD captures it .

(edited)I forgot....Coleman Hawkins doing Bossa Nova stuff (One Note Samba, Desafinado, etc).

Psychicpet · #7 09-20-2006, 12:18 AM

Coltrane "A Love Supreme"/"Ascension"
Sonny Rollins "The Bridge"
anything that Skerik has played on

Dave · #8 09-20-2006, 12:23 AM

LeRoi Moore of Dave Matthews Band is an awesome sax player.

markjazzbassist · #9 09-20-2006, 12:35 AM

im a sax player myself. bassist first, then saxophonist.

grover washington jr. - winelight, mr. magic
john coltrane - giant steps (i love the song naima), a love supreme
cannonball adderely - somethin' else
eddie harris - second movement
eddie harris and les mccann - swiss movement
tom scott - apple juice (great live album, marcus miller's on bass), born again

gotta love the sax.

**Josh Ryan** · #10 09-20-2006, 04:12 PM

Awesome, thanks. there are a few I know, but a bunch that I'm unfamiliar with. I've always wanted to learn to play.

MonetBass · #11 09-20-2006, 04:12 PM

Sax is one instrument I'd like to learn someday.

David Sanborn - A Change of Heart
Candy Dulfer - Saxuality
Boney James & Rick Braun - Shake It Up (good trumpet too)

pocket_groover · #12 09-20-2006, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by OKStateBass66

Boney James & Rick Braun - Shake It Up (good trumpet too)

+1 .... I love their version of "Grazin in the Grass" ... it just grooves

avid · #13 09-20-2006, 05:30 PM

I can't believe no one has mentioned Richard Elliot. I saw him a couple of weeks ago in Michigan City, IN and he put on his usual outstanding HIGH ENERGY show. His current bassist, Nate Phillps*, is from here in Oregon and is awesome. Richard plays his signature kind of jazzed up funk. I've seen Bony, Sandborn (about six times) Dave Koz, Kim Waters, Grover, Jeff Kashiwa and for a high energy, fun show Richard is tought to beat.

Wished I could have seen Eddie Harris, my roomate in college schooled me on Eddie. It goes almost without saying that I would have loved to see Coltrane.

If you want to rearrange your cortical matter go and see Greg Osby.

*March 2006 Bass Player had an article about Nate.
http://www.bassplayer.com/story.asp?storyCode=13265

**Josh Ryan** · #14 09-20-2006, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by avid

I can't believe no one has mentioned Richard Elliot. I saw him a couple of weeks ago in Michigan City, IN and he put on his usual outstanding HIGH ENERGY show. His current bassist, Nate Phillps*, is from here in Oregon and is awesome. Richard plays his signature kind of jazzed up funk. I've seen Bony, Sandborn (about six times) Dave Koz, Kim Waters, Grover, Jeff Kashiwa and for a high energy, fun show Richard is tought to beat.

Wished I could have seen Eddie Harris, my roomate in college schooled me on Eddie. It goes almost without saying that I would have loved to see Coltrane.

If you want to rearrange your cortical matter go and see Greg Osby.

*March 2006 Bass Player had an article about Nate.
http://www.bassplayer.com/story.asp?storyCode=13265

Greg Osby rules, heard of him through a guy that introduced me to Steve Coleman as well.

thanks again for the suggestions everyone. This is just what I needed right now.

Vandelay · #15 09-20-2006, 09:05 PM

King Curtis, the "Live at Fillmore West" album from the early 70s. Or just get his studio verson of "Memphis Soul Stew". Funky soul at its finest.

MonetBass · #16 09-21-2006, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by avid

I can't believe no one has mentioned Richard Elliot.

Was going to but couldn't remember the album name.
Richard Eliot - City Speak

**Bryan R. Tyler** · #17 09-21-2006, 01:46 PM

Paul Desmond is probably my favorite sax player. I don't like his solo stuff as much, but his work with Dave Brubeck is simply top-notch. Everything he plays just sound cool.

Everyone knows Coltrane- my favorite albums of his are "Giant Steps" and the less talked about "My Favorite Things."

I dislike horns in most music outside of jazz though- even on a lot of jazz styles (smooth jazz, etc.) the horns leave me cold- they just sound too cheesy or (when in unison) too much like a parade.

Janek Gwizdala's album has some of the best horns I've heard in a long time in a non-bebop context. Can't think of the players offhand.

**bassybill** · #18 09-21-2006, 02:12 PM

Another vote here for Tom Scott and David Sanborn.

Actually, my band's sax player is pretty darn tasty as well. Have a listen. This is my "other band", by the way, not the Expresso Bongo Orchestra as featured in my sig.

Lazylion · #19 09-21-2006, 02:46 PM

Anything by the Neville Brothers, with Dr. Charles Neville on sax. Especially "Live On Planet Earth".

Any Tower Of Power
Any Deep Banana Blackout
Any Mingo Fishtrap (they have a new album)

I like Skerik, too!

pocket_groover · #20 09-21-2006, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Vandelay

King Curtis, the "Live at Fillmore West" album from the early 70s. Or just get his studio verson of "Memphis Soul Stew". Funky soul at its finest.

I really like how "Memphis Soul Stew" starts off nice and easy and then builds up to a great groove!

Thanks for reminding me about this one.