Great Players Who sparked your love of Sax music

[ProfJames]

David Sanborn...(?)

Jimmy James and the Vagabonds..............excellent call...

 

[ellinas]

Plenty of soulies here
KTF

 

[Ads]

The Rock'n'roll Revival in the 70s when I was a kid .. Wizzard in Particular

 

[ProfJames]

............and Showaddywaddy!!! Hey rock and roll.....!!!!!

 

[Chris]

Plenty of soulies here
KTF

 

[trimmy]

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.

Try this man for altissimo.....
http://youtu.be/se4serV57tU

Your clip sounds like Sanborn

 

[Colin1]

Andy Mackay for the stuff he did with Roxy

 

[ProfJames]

Wonderful choice @trimmy. What a performer he is....

 

[ProfJames]

Andy Mackay for the stuff he did with Roxy

Great call. He was also my inspiration

 

[Colin1]

Great call. He was also my inspiration

Same Old Scene, Jealous Guy, Avalon to name but three - sax work to stir your soul

 

[ProfJames]

This track is superb...................A Song for Europe..........here is a live version but listen to the album version - off the album Countrylife....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPQa-pEt9c

 

[Lizengar]

Kaori Kobayashi and the band T-Square.

T-Square had Takeshi Itoh and Masato Honda. The ones I heard was of them playing the EWI but then I heard Truth in saxophone version and I died...

 

[richardr]

Kaori Kobayashi and the band T-Square.

T-Square had Takeshi Itoh and Masato Honda. The ones I heard was of them playing the EWI but then I heard Truth in saxophone version and I died...

It wasn't hearing anyone that did it for me. My lodger left his ancient Conn alto hanging on a chair in the kitchen and I couldn't resist giving it a blow. To my surprise I got a note, then another, and then few more and I could play a simple tune. Hey, maybe I could learn to play one of these.....

 

[Rob Pealing]

I am not sure there was just one person, when I think back it might have started with Alan Barnes and John Barnes when they played with Humphrey Lyttlelton at the Theatre in Grisedale Forest, circa '86.

 

[ColColt]

Sil Austin. I had bought the album "Sil Austin Plays Pretty for the People" and fell in love with his sound. That first sparked my interest in the tenor sax many years ago.

 

[Bernie]

Dave O'Higgins, playing "Under the Stone" on the radio programme "Woman's Hour" in the early 1990s.

 

[ProfJames]

Dave O'Higgins, playing "Under the Stone" on the radio programme "Woman's Hour" in the early 1990s.

Woman's Hour!!!!? Was there no rugby on TV?

 

[Bernie]

My TV got shot up in a big fight after a poker game.

 

[nickh]

John Coltranes Africa Brass. The first Jazz album i bought. Mostly because it had a cool cover. It took me years to appreciate and decades before i realised i wanted to play Sax though!

 

[Richie2176]

Have to agree about Sil Austin such a smooth powerful tone and sound and awesome phrasing love his playing

Sil Austin. I had bought the album "Sil Austin Plays Pretty for the People" and fell in love with his sound. That first sparked my interest in the tenor sax many years ago.