Name some great saxophone solos!!! (1 Viewer)

[Reginald Trent]

Anything John Coltrane "A Love Supreme" "Impressions" "Giant Steps"

Anything Charlie Parker "Embracable You" "Scrapple From The Apple" "Kim"

Jackie McLean "Old Folks"

Sonny Rollins “St. Thomas”

Dexter Gordon “Broadway”

Lester Young “Ad Lib Blues”

Wayne Shorter "Yes and No"

Grover Washington Jr. “Mister Magic”

Maceo Parker with James Brown on “J.B’s Monorail”

Lenny Pickett “Knock Yourself Out” from the group Tower Of Power’s Live and In Living Color Album/CD

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

Well, Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side ends with some pretty good sax work, supposledly from none other than mr David Bowie!

 

[Jan H]

Wayne Shorter on Steely Dan's "Aja"

Sonny Rollins "Blue Seven"

I also like Joshua Redman's version of "Tears in Heaven"

 

[Andrew 'Ange Hamm' Hamm]

There's a great sax solo in "Happy Ending," a real unknown gem of a song from Joe Jackson's Body and Soul.

 

[Jon Sheedy]

Check out the ending sax solo on the Manfred Mann's Earth Band track "Singing The Dolphin Through"....pretty wicked!

JoN

 

[Lee Scoggins]

Joe Henderson "Ask Me Now" on McCoy Tyner New York Reunion.

Sorry, could not resist.

 

[MarkHastings]

I agree with Lin Park on "Heuy Lewis and the News"

I'll also add "On The Dark Side" by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

 

[John Kotches]

Mikael said:

Well, Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side ends with some pretty good sax work, supposledly from none other than mr David Bowie!

Close. The saxophonist on the disc is Ronnie Ross, who once taught David Bowie.

Based on the style, I'd say that Ronnie Ross was a big fan of Gerry Mulligan's

Regards,

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

Close. The saxophonist on the disc is Ronnie Ross, who once taught David Bowie.

I stand corrected.
However, in my defence, I must say that my knowledge came from a Swedish Music Trivial Pursuit game .
As a Bowie fan, I should have checked Teenage Wildlife...
A great solo, anyway.

 

[Henry Gale]

Lee Allen needs to be mentioned in this thread. His greatest legacy may be the wonderful solos he took on Little Richard's hits, "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," "Rip It Up," and "Good Golly Miss Molly."
He also worked with many of the greatest New Orleans stars and finally, The Blasters.

Jim

 

[Charles Gurganus]

Don't know the player but on McCartney songs "Bluebird" and "Listen to What the Man Said".

 

[John_Bonner]

The outro of Traffic's "Low Spark of High-heeled Boys"

 

[Ron Etaylor]

Gotta second Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.

 

[Carlos Mendoza]

On Pink Floyd's album The Final Cut, in the song, "The Gunner's Dream", there is a saxophone solo that brings me near tears every time I listen to it.

Then later, as the album ends with "Two Suns in the Sunset", the saxophone is amazing.

Just one of the reasons I rate The Final Cut as Pink Floyds best album EVER.

 

[Dan Driscoll]

The sax in The Working Hour, from Tears for Fears 2nd album, Songs From The Big Chair, is very good. I don't know who the musician is and it might even be a synthesizer, but if it is it's the best synthesized saxaphone I've ever heard.

 

[Andrew 'Ange Hamm' Hamm]

Just one of the reasons I rate The Final Cut as Pink Floyds best album EVER.

Uh-oh, Carlos. Better get out that flame-retardant suit.

 

[Rachael B]

I like Eddie Harris singing through his electrified sax on E.H. IN THE U.K. I like the way/s he said "baby", "ooouh baby..."
As far as rock-ish sorts of thangs go, how about FREEDOM RIDER by Traffic, some of the sax solos by Pete Hancock for the Climax Blue Band, or Edgar Winter with or without his White Trash...SOLAR STRUT, A DIFFERENT GAME, COMPETITION....