Great Players Who sparked your love of Sax music

[ProfJames]

What great sax playing on the video above................couldn't take my eyes off it........

 

[John Laughter]

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[Colin the Bear]

You might like this More 'sax' in it!

What a cracking piece of work. Great arrangement, great playing/singing and nice editing in the video.

 

[altissimo]

You might like this More 'sax' in it!

if you listen carefully, you can just make out the sound of Lou Reed turning in his grave..

whoever chose the video clip has obviously never seen a picture of Holly Woodlawn and the rest of the Warhol Superstars

 

[U CAN CALL ME AL]

In posting my intention was simply to draw attention to the sax playing in contrast to the original recording, where the solo occupies a mere 30 or so seconds at the end. The video is irrelevant just listen with your ears open and your eyes closed.

 

[Colin the Bear]

here's a version without a distracting video

http://youtu.be/1AA2tq6u7T0

 

[U CAN CALL ME AL]

Many thanks Col!

 

[Alc.]

Vido Musso, 'Sing, Sing, Sing', Carnegie Hall.

 

[Derek A]

Hi Guys.
Driving home from a jazz workshop couple of weeks ago I was listening to a Ska / Reggae programme on BBC Radio 2.
Stap me, I heard a solo played by Aubrey Adams - the guy sounded just like me! Same phrasing, range, tone, dynamics. That was really spooky.
Anyone heard of the guy?

 

[flamingoer]

Vido Musso. 'Santa Lucia' - (as a kid I was crazy about Stan Kenton )

 

[Derek A]

I saw the Stan Kenton band in London in the 70s. OMG the brass section on 'Peanut Vendor' was ear splitting - discordant harmonies - like a Brazilian traffic jam. 😱 Fantastic - recordings don't do it justice. Very few of this class of touring band around now. I think John Von Ohlen was on drums. Great, great drummer - very light touch - but could cut through the band beautifully.

 

[Jonesy]

Dick Heckstall-Smith with Colosseum and Jack Lancaster with Blodwyn Pig.

 

[spike]

Hi Guys.
Stap me, I heard a solo played by Aubrey Adams - Anyone heard of the guy?

Unlikely to have been Aubrey Adams on Sax as he was a keyboard player. Might have been Tommy McCook or Roland Alphonso of Skatalite fame.

 

[Out in the sticks]

Well for me it was Raf Ravenscroft Baker Street, then Clarence Clemons

 

[ellinas]

Ike Quebec.
His version of Nature Boy was stuck in my head from the first moment.
Great playing, great sound.
Because it's not what you play it's how you play it 🙂

 

[Vlad]

Probably corny and what eveyone says , but was Ben Webster and Lester Young, I had some cheapo compilation LP with various random tracks ( seperately) featuring the above when I was a teenager and thought those two were the way ahead !
I did go to a gig by the 'Grosse Mickey Jupp Band' when I was about 16 and they had 2 tenor players...." I want to do that" ..thinks the youthful me, so I did 🙂

 

[Il Padrino]

Dee Byrne - when we were both 15, in school. I saw/heard her playing in a 'form period' before lessons started - wow, back in 1986/87. I thought if SHE can play that lovely instrument, so can I. How sexist was I as a 15 year old? I owe her much though. Here we are many years later, and I'm in the process of mastering her album with her band Entropi - to be released early next year. http://deebyrnemusic.com/entropi/

Aside from Dee, two particular moments and players, when I heard and saw this video of Courtney Pine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBDFEAGGaKo&t=2m20s Beautiful version. How young does he look???

And a complete contrast in style and sound...

Hearing this alto solo from the same year, can anyone guess who the player is without the Google?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCdJge92ms&t=3m01s

I'd never heard altissimo until I heard this. It literally left my jaw on the floor.... I'd never heard a sax play that high and musical.

 

[Richie2176]

I know that a lot of us think of the jazz greats when we think of great sax players but what track or player was the initial spark that lit the flame of love for the sax and sax music.

I think it was the sax part in careless whisper played by Steve Gregory that started it all and the the sax solo from "Will you" by Hazel O Conner can't remember who the sax player was but someone will tell me

Who was it for you?

mamos

Well for me it has always been Junior Walker and The Allstars with Roadrunner, Shotgun,What Does It Take To Win Your Love For Me and so many more the way Hevmade that Tenor Squeal I thought He played An Alto till I saw Him on the Same Bill as The Temptations and Jimmy James and The Vagabonds in The 1970's at Hammersmith Odeon He blew the place apart He was awesome in my opinion He was Better than the Temptations I now play Alto and got a Tenor in January and I'm in Sax Heaven

 

[DavidG]

can anyone guess who the player is without the Google?

David Sanborn...(?)

 

[saxplorer]

the appeal goes very far back into sounds before conscious memory, but this does as well as any to represent the sound and emotion of sax in South African jazz ...

(Track ususally known as Mannenberg)