Best Sax Solos in Music History?

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From Slate magazine

http://img.slate.com/blogs/blogs/br...olo-in-pop-music-history.aspx?wpisrc=obinsite

The author mentions about a dozen and includes embedded audio clips

But even better is the over 400+ Comments which suggest many more.

Read them alongside a separate window with Youtube and you can likely find most suggestions there to play right now.

 

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barman said:

From Slate magazine

http://img.slate.com/blogs/blogs/br...olo-in-pop-music-history.aspx?wpisrc=obinsite

The author mentions about a dozen and includes embedded audio clips

But even better is the over 400+ Comments which suggest many more.

Read them alongside a separate window with Youtube and you can likely find most suggestions there to play right now.

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Best Sax solos in "Pop" Music History... I can assure you that jazz musicians of a slightly earlier era would totally blow away everyone in that list.

See the likes of : Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Stan Getz

 

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festeringZit said:

Best Sax solos in "Pop" Music History... I can assure you that jazz musicians of a slightly earlier era would totally blow away everyone in that list.

See the likes of : Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Stan Getz

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Miles Davis is one of my all time favs... Got to see him live and he blew my mind.

 

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paul desmond-Take 5(dave brubeck quartet)
stan getz-Girl From Ipanema(joao and astrid gilbertow/antonio carlos jobim)
coltrane-My Favorite Things(coltrane quartet)
ronnie ross-Walk on the Wild Side(Lou Reed)
sonny rollins-Waiting On A Friend(rollin stones)...........just to name a few off the top of my head

 

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Clarence Clemons, Jungleland.

 

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JohnnyMac said:

Clarence Clemons, Jungleland.

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There is your winner. Thread closed.

 

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doubledeuce22 said:

There is your winner. Thread closed.

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ROFL. He's not even in the top 30.

 

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Betallsports said:

Miles Davis is one of my all time favs... Got to see him live and he blew my mind.

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Oh yeah, unreal.

 

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@ post #2 Thanks for posting that. Incredible stuff.

 

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What? No Men At Work? They did a pretty good job of introducing the sax in the early mid eighties with the sax in alot of thier songs. I know they are irrevelent now but one does have to appreciate a time and mood when these songs were fresh. Men At Work came on like a massive storm but for some reason couldn't sustain. Just saw Colin Hay (lead singer) a few weeks ago and the man still got it. He in no doubt keeps his voice just as fresh as he did in the eighties. It's unreal to me singers like him and perhaps Sammy Hagar can maintain their voice through the ages.

 

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Flip Phillips doing Perdido, w/Jazz @ The Philharmonic. Saw it in person, awesome!! Any Desmond, Getz or Young.

 

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Curtis Amy's sax solo at the end of the Door's "Touch Me"


http://youtu.be/PECk9A-07Pw

 

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You guys have excellent taste! - throw in the sax at the end of "Human Being" by the NY Dolls , remember them?... imho their best song ever and one of best R&R songs of all time

 

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honzie said:

You guys have excellent taste! - throw in the sax at the end of "Human Being" by the NY Dolls , remember them?... imho their best song ever and one of best R&R songs of all time

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The NY Dolls (what's left of them - Johansen, Sylvain, and Kane) played a show at Del Mar last night.

 

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JohnnyMac said:

Clarence Clemons, Jungleland.

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this

 

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cocktailsnlongshots said:

paul desmond-Take 5(dave brubeck quartet)
stan getz-Girl From Ipanema(joao and astrid gilbertow/antonio carlos jobim)
coltrane-My Favorite Things(coltrane quartet)
ronnie ross-Walk on the Wild Side(Lou Reed)
sonny rollins-Waiting On A Friend(rollin stones)...........just to name a few off the top of my head

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Non-musicians won't get this one...

 

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my son in 5th grade, Sax to the Max

I had no idea he was doing a solo, and I couldn't believe how good he was

He gave it up in HS

 

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billhill999 said:

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Yep