Good question. Curtis probably has the most extensive listing with saxsolos.com. Your question about sax solo scores for the 50's era has come up often on various message boards without any answers that I have seen. Most players (like you) are playing them by ear, or maybe they can find a score to a song like "Tequila" or "Shotgun" which are more common. I have not seen any books over the years that have the "solos" for the 50's or 60's Rock & Roll or R&B hits. Maybe other members know of person or a book that has a lot of the solos?
) it's often written out. I learn the solo and then I put away the charts. When I lean a solo I don't write notes. Last summer I payed the song "The Wander" by Dion at a BBQ party with a band. They wanted to play some songs with sax (Chuck Berry, Dion, Rollings Stones, Bruce Springsteen ...). I learned Buddy Lucas tenorsolo and fillings as he played it. It's an easy one. Key of D, a 12-bar blues with a bridge and rock beat, tenorsolo over 12 bar. I like to write down what I'm going to play. I do changes as well. This is my very own charts/notes. I'm just playing for fun and I don't get paid. Most of the time I'm just thriving with the saxophone in the woodshed.
