Great Players Who sparked your love of Sax music

kevgermany · Apr 10, 2016

Jeanette said:
All after one tiddly night out ... 🙂

Jx

Better than coming back as a father.

Jeanette · Apr 10, 2016

kevgermany said:
Better than coming back as a father.

Is that the voice of experience???

Jx

kevgermany · Apr 10, 2016

Jeanette said:
Is that the voice of experience???

Jx

Not that I know of.

Nurrdeer · Apr 22, 2016

Madness' sax player, Lee Thompson did it for me. I listened to "Baggy trousers" over and over again...

Shoyu · Apr 24, 2016

For me it was players at school. They were just so cool. I was a flute player and took up bass guitar as one fell into my path via my dad and I desperately wanted to be in the jazz band. Having picked up the sax as a doubler as an adult I now realise that those kids had to graft as much as I did I on the flute. I still love playing both sax and flute.

Eoe · Aug 28, 2016

Would have to say it would be Boots Randolph think I was in the second grade but the saxophone was not a manly instruments for a texas so I took up drums. Then at 13 I fell in love with a bass guitar. Then the guitar then flamenco guitar then classical guitarThen the lute in college back to procussions and bass guitar after years of trying to make my lead guitar sound like a saxophone or to find that perfect saxophone Sample 4 keyboards I decided to learn to play the saxophone last month

Richie2176 · Aug 28, 2016

dooce said:
I have Brubeck albums with Paul Desmond, loads of Stan Getz, I've seen Colosseum with Dick Heckstall-Smith, I have gazed in awe at Davey Payne of The Blockheads, but what actually did it for me was, I think, Snake Davis playing with M People at some televised gig at a footy ground in Manchester, early 90's, where he prowled around the edge of the square stage just blowing this brilliant stuff and being roared on by the crowd. Best bit of "pop" sax-playing I've ever seen.

We saw Snake Davis at Sax and Co at Crowborough last year a long drive from Gloucestershire and back but worth every mile Snake was fantastic a brilliant sax player but very gentle and self deprecating a wonderful evening thank you Snake and Sax and Co

My kind of jazz · Sep 5, 2016

My love for the saxophone started with Coleman Hawkins' Body and Soul, but eventually transitioned to John Coltrane's "sheets of sound" style. Ironically, I remember hating Coltrane when I was a teenager and first starting to teach myself to play jazz music over the summer of my Grade 9 year of high school.

I eventually listened to all of the enthusiasm around Coltrane and his genius improvisation and sound and gave him a second chance. I fell in love with his story-telling and lamenting improvisation on the album A Love Supreme, and I remember it "clicking" for me on the final movement of that album. I am eternally grateful to have given Coltrane another listen because he is now my favourite saxophonist, and I truly consider him to be the most creative and technically masterful improviser I have ever heard.

ktmdom · Sep 7, 2016

I enjoy listening to Roxy Music. Andy Mackay plays a song "Tara" on Soprano he also plays Alto and Tenor. I recently found out Rory Gallagher also played sax in the band "Taste" too.

Richie2176 · Sep 7, 2016

Didn't know that Rory played Sax

Vintage77 · Sep 11, 2016

Growing up in the 80s I think I was aware of a lot of pop sax but it was hearing Little Richard's Long Tall Sally with Lee Allen that did it for me. I ended up playing clarinet as a result because my parents couldn't afford a sax or the private lessons for it. I still have that clarinet but a curved sop, alto and tenor to go with it. I still can't figure out the sax part for Long Tall Sally. In fact I will start a post about my theory on why.

Baby_Sneak · Sep 20, 2016

I'm new to the sax world, so my guy will also be modern. Kamasi Washington sparked my love for the sax with this song:

Then I loved music due to Herbie Hancock's creative self with his album Sextant.

John Laughter · Oct 1, 2016

In the summer of 1956 a lot of R&R and R&B was being played on local radio stations. I remember hearing "Honky Tonk" by Bill Doggett and one of Little Richards' hits and becoming aware of the sax. That sound was all it took for me. I rode my bicycle to school to join the 7th grade band that summer. It was a time when sax solos were featured on many hit records being played on jukeboxes and radio stations.

Dabaqallo · Oct 1, 2016

Not sure I knew what a sax looked like back in my childhood, but I can't forget the enchanting sound of the instrument from series of soundtracks by Katsu Ohno for one of my favorite TV shows.

mickw · Oct 30, 2016

My fave album of all time Hot Rats by Frank Zappa ,with Ian Underwood on flutes and saxes ,particularly the long jams The son of Mr Green Genes and The Gumbo Variations in which Zappa trades solos with Underwood and violinists Jean Luc Ponty and Don "sugarcane " Harris .Another horn man I love is Mel Collins ex King Crimson amongst many other sessions ,check out Ladies of the road on Crimsons Islands LP.
Check out Dick Heckstall Smith's work ex The Graham Bond Organisation and Colloseum particularly Valentine Suite ,the first album on the now collectable Vertigo label---could go on forever but I'll keep it short for now

Tiberius · Nov 8, 2016

Growing up in the 70's, for me it was the pink panther.

Jules · Nov 8, 2016

mickw said:
My fave album of all time Hot Rats by Frank Zappa ,with Ian Underwood on flutes and saxes ,particularly the long jams The son of Mr Green Genes and The Gumbo Variations in which Zappa trades solos with Underwood and violinists Jean Luc Ponty and Don "sugarcane " Harris .Another horn man I love is Mel Collins ex King Crimson amongst many other sessions ,check out Ladies of the road on Crimsons Islands LP.
Check out Dick Heckstall Smith's work ex The Graham Bond Organisation and Colloseum particularly Valentine Suite ,the first album on the now collectable Vertigo label---could go on forever but I'll keep it short for now

A top tip for Dick Heckstall Smith- his autobiography, "Blowing the Blues" as well as being a good read includes a CD of live material which, for me, upstages pretty much anything else of his I've managed to track down.
Actually- as native of Huddersfield- I wonder if, like me, you first encountered DHS with his band at innumerable small hippy/biker festivals up in the Dales in the early 80s (usually on billings with The Groundhogs, Roy Harper, Here & Now etc)?

Jonesy · Nov 8, 2016

Jules said:
A top tip for Dick Heckstall Smith- his autobiography, "Blowing the Blues" as well as being a good read includes a CD of live material which, for me, upstages pretty much anything else of his I've managed to track down.
Actually- as native of Huddersfield- I wonder if, like me, you first encountered DHS with his band at innumerable small hippy/biker festivals up in the Dales in the early 80s (usually on billings with The Groundhogs, Roy Harper, Here & Now etc)?

I bought that one earlier this year, very good read (especially his [mis]adventures with Graham Bond). I lent it out while ago, must get it back.
'Wosa Nasu' is a good album, too.

Another good read is Jon Hiseman "Playing the band".