Sax Players You Like

[GuyBoden]

Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt

[AllanAllen]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Art Pepper.... oh, I see that Hep to the Jive did. He played with my college jazz band, t'was amazing.

There's so many great ones, you can't make a list without forgetting someone obvious.

[wintermoon]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Art Pepper.... oh, I see that Hep to the Jive did. He played with my college jazz band, t'was amazing.

I did @ post 44

[Mick-7]

I did @ post 44

Ah, missed that, thanks. When he played with my college jazz band, he gave a brief jazz clinic and someone asked him about expressing emotions in one's playing. He proceeded to illustrate techniques he'd use to express various emotions. Sure wish I had a recording of that session, it would be an essential resource.

[GuyBoden]

Here is Charlie Parker playing slowly.

Beyond his incredible technique and phrasing, Charlie Parker had such a great Sax tone.

'Everything Happens To Me'

[GuyBoden]

Bird at his best (live)

[GuyBoden]

Sonny Stitt - Cherokee

He plays the Bird Cherokee changes bridge at 3:36.

[GuyBoden]

Scott Hamilton - Cherokee.

A contrast to Sonny Stitt.

[gcb]

[2bornot2bop]

The late great Wilton Felder! Many don’t realize aside from his saxophone chops he had a secondary career playing Bass for many varied artists ranging from Joni Mitchell, The Jackson Five, Seals and Crofts, Barry White, too many to mention…Here he is on Barry’s famed Love’s Theme from 1973

[jameslovestal]

[Rob MacKillop]

I was browsing through my cds, when I noticed I had 12 recordings with Scott Hamilton playing sax.

Great tone and great lines.

Sorry to say I’ve never knowingly listened to Scott Hamilton before, but that was wonderful Very clear lines with a beautiful tone. Nothing revolutionary, but perfectly in the groove. I’ll seek out more. Thanks for sharing, Guy.

[digger]

Perchance, I'm sitting in the car right now waiting for SWMBO to have her nails done listening to Scott Hamilton and Bucky Pizzarelli on The Red Door. Wonderful album.

[AllanAllen]

[Picker]

No particular order: Prez, Bird, Cannonball, Illinois Jacquet, Paul Gonsalvez, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Archie Shepp, Trane (I do not ike the late stuff, "Love Supreme" etc.), Don Byas, Paul Desmond, Buddy Tate, Louis Jordan, Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff, Charles McPherson, Gerry Mulligan, Eric Dolphy, Yusef Lateef, Roland Rahsan Kirk, John Handy, Booker Erwin, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Cecil Payne, Leo Parker, Heinz Sauer, Johnny Hodges ...

Posting this on a guitar forum I realize that I have listened much more to jazz saxophonists and pianists than to guitarists.

Great list...to which I'd add Art Pepper, Eddie Harris, Grover Washington and many others.

[Picker]

Thanks...new name and artist to me, and very glad you made your post. Thanks!

[JazzPadd]

I been looping a Benny Golson playlist since his recent passing. Wonderfully lyrical player and composer. Killer Joe fave tune.

Great for jam sessions. The T-bone solo on that cut gets me. And this is the version that the Manhattan Transfer vocalesed.

[AllanAllen]

I been looping a Benny Golson playlist since his recent passing. Wonderfully lyrical player and composer. Killer Joe fave tune.

Great for jam sessions. The T-bone solo on that cut gets me. And this is the version that the Manhattan Transfer vocalesed.

After listening to this 4 times, I have determined you meant Trombone solo and not T-Bone Walker solo. It's been a cuss of a week.

[GuyBoden]

Alan Barnes

[Rob MacKillop]

Haircut not withstanding, London’s finest, the late but great, Tubby Hayes!

[Zappa68]

What about Jackie McLean and Wayne Shorter?

[AllanAllen]

[timbrewolf]

Avram Fefer. Love his albums with Marc Ribot:

Chris Speed:

[Brian859]

What about Jackie McLean and Wayne Shorter?

I was going to say wayne shorter. I saw him with santana, patrice russian, chancellor on percussion and that whole gang back around 1980. It was good.

[princeplanet]

What about Jackie McLean and Wayne Shorter?

... and I was gonna say Jackie Maclean - oh wait a minute, I think I already did .

Gotta love the cheeky attitude and super hip lines (well, at least according to my definition of hip).