What's your top 10 al***s featuring saxophone?

Mostly Jazz, mostly be-bop.

Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' (John Coltrane, Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley)
Thelonious Monk 'Monk's Music' (John Coltrane, Coleman Hawakins)
Cannonball Adderley 'Somethin' Else' (Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley)
Miles Davis 'In a Silent Way' (Wayne Shorter)
Tommy Chase Quartet 'Groove Merchant' (Kevin Flanagan)
Pink Floyd 'Wish You Were Here' (Dick Parry)
Charles Mingus 'Mingus Ah Um' (John Handy, Booker Ervin, Shafi Hadi)
Miles Davis 'Complete Miles at Montreux' (for Kenny Garrett on 'Human Nature' disc 13, 1988)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messangers 'Moanin' (Benny Golson)

I'll leave one free for when I remember the obvious one I missed.

Looking forward to MilesSmiles and Lontano's replies on this thread.

Jan Garbarek - Rites. Off the cuff, there are many more.

There's a Moose loose aboot this hoos.
Red River Rock.
Just one out of Jamies list, I bet you can't guess which one?

The whole of Love My Way by Psychedelic Furs.

Soulville - Ben Webster
Sonethin' Else -Adderley

'Third'
Soft Machine

Features some wonderful alto sax and saxello from the late Elton Dean

Jan Garbarek - Officium
King Curtis - Live at the Filmore
Earth Opera - American Eagle Tragedy
Kevin Ayres - While your parents are sleeping
Beatles - Got to get you into my life

Keith Jarrett - Belonging (European Quartet featuring Jan Garbarek)
Keith Jarrett - My Song (EQ)
Keith Jarrett - Personal Mountains (EQ)
Jan Garbarek - I Took Up The Runes
Jan Garbarek -Rites (and he has loads of other albums to try out)
John Surman - The Road To St Ives
John Surman - Private City
John Surman - A Biography Of The Rev. Absalom Dawe
Charles Lloyd - Notes of Big Sur
Charles Lloyd - Canto
Charles Lloyd - Voice in the Night
Bendik Hofseth - Metamorphoses
Michael Brecker - Nearness of You - The Ballad Book
Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage
Dave Holland Quartet - Extensions
Joshua Redman - Moodswing
Joshua Redman - Spirit of the Moment
David Murray - Shakill's 2
David Murray - Like a kiss that never ends (he has done so many albums it would be hard to choose)

Loads more out there but that should keep you going for a while.

Michael Nyman's Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (Harle/Lloyd-Webber) does it for me.


Lovely piece, and I also like the trombone concerto on the same recording.

Grover Washington Jr. - The best is yet to come

Whom ever played the sax on that Hazel O'Connor single from years ago?


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Originally posted by DIB:
Whom ever played the sax on that Hazel O'Connor single from years ago?


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It's a class act.

iirc from the album Broken Glass.

Chris N

Sonny Rollins..Saxophone Collossus
Joe Lovano...From The Soul
John Coltrane...Favourite Things
Art Pepper Quintet...Smack Up
Steve Lacy Four...Morning Joy
Lee Konitz...Motion
Ornette Coleman...The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Miles Davis...Jack Johnson Sessions
Vandermark 5...Beat Reader
Eric Dolphy...Out To Lunch

All Jazz all GREAT and in no particular order.

One album I do miss from vinyl -
The Paris Saxaphone Quartet.
Their take on classical pieces were truly amazing.
I do wish I could get it on CD, but as of yet have been unlucky in my search.

Born to Run was the album that made me realise the sax could be a very effective rock instrument.

muchos overlooked Courtney Pine and Tommy Smith

Julee Cruise's 'Floating Into The Night', an offshoot from the wonderful David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks'. The saxophonist is listed as Al Regni who, when I checked just now and much to my astonishment, is principal saxophonist of the New York Philharmonic, and holds the same position with the New York City Ballet.

Also a bit surprising that neither of Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' or 'Moondance' has had a mention.

monoceros - evan parker

spiritual unity - albert ayler

live at the village vanguard - john coltrane/eric dolphy

easy living - paul desmond

out to lunch - eric dolphy

esp - miles davis (wayne shorter)

town hall concert - ornette coleman

far east suite - duke ellington (johnny hodges)

turkish women at the baths - pete larocca (john gilmore)

disco 3000 - sun ra (john gilmore)

and how could i leave out;

motion - lee konitz

other afternoons - jimmy lyons

blinks - steve lacy

abstractions - lee konitz/warne marsh

out there - eric dolphy

ad infinitum..........

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Originally posted by JamieL_v2:
Looking forward to MilesSmiles and Lontano's replies on this thread.

Just flying back from NY where I had the great pleasure to listen to some live Jazz sax at Blue Note NY, will put my list together over the weekend.

Anybody knows this one?



Regards,
Michel

This was the first track I heard by Springsteen
Rosalita Come Out Tonight!

check some samples here (whiter shade of pale is best) here

All featuring the incomparable Jaxonsax...

Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other
Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He
Van Der Graaf Generator - World Record
Van Der Graaf Generator - Present
Van Der Graaf Generator - Real Time

And, of course...
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

Peter Hammill - Silent Corner of the Empty Stage
Peter Hammill - Chameleon In the Shadow of the Night

I could go on, oh I did.

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Originally posted by Klout10:
Anybody knows this one?



Regards,
Michel

And these:

Morphine: Good
Morphine: Yes
Morphine: Like Swimming
Morphine: B-Sides and Otherwise
Morphine: The Night (some stunning bass on this)
Morphine: Bootleg Detroit