Is Sax considered Brass? What is your favorite Sax solo ...

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

......like for a rock and roll song ...... ? :mad:




...... I was thinking Foreigner's 'Urgent' had a pretty tasty piece in there ....... :o




.... That dude in Springsteen's E street band ain't bad either .... :o

[Rowka]

Originally posted by Dr. Tweedbucket
.... That dude in Springsteen's E street band ain't bad either .... :o

That dude?
THAT DUDE?

That's Clarence! The Big Man.

[777Brad]

Sax is a woodwind.

Listen to John Coltrane. He's the The Man in the world of sax players.

Brad

[DemiFrost]

Pink Floyd - Money

...it had to be said. >_>

I don't hear many sax solos in my music, but songs that do have them...

Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams

Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein

...that's it. o.o

[sunburstbasser]

Bob Seger's music has sax solos fairly often.

Or "Reble Rouser" by Duane Eddy.

And yes, the saxophone is a woodwind. The terms "brass" and "woodwind," in this context, refer to the way the instrument is played and not the material it is made out of.

Oh yeah...

MORPHINE!!!!! Bari sax, baby!:mad:

[Timothy Scags]

Without a doubt the best sax solo for me is Tobacco Road off the Edgar Winter's White Trash Roadwork album.

I played for about 25 years and could never get that solo right, doubt many can.

[The Nick]

Originally posted by sunburstbasser
Bob Seger's music has sax solos fairly often.


yeah, but he sucks.

[jonathan_matos5]

for sax players i like gerald albright he does a pretty amazing cover of georgia on my mind

and i also love to listen to coltrane

[Chicken Monkey]

Creedence--Long as I can see the light

[kayakdave]

the sax solo on Steeley Dan's Aja is classic...maybe not really rock

[TitusAndronicus]

i'm not a fan of sax solos in rock. i love sax. but just not is a rock song, for me.

[777Brad]

Originally posted by kayakdave
the sax solo on Steeley Dan's Aja is classic...maybe not really rock

So true! Wayne Shorter was great.

Brad

[GZsound]

Junior Walker did the sax solo on "Urgent".

I grew up listening to him. He was one of the original rock and roll sax players. I think I learned "Shotgun" when it was top forty..

Phil Woods lead on Billy Joel's "I love you just the way you are" is great. Don Myrick from Earth Wind and Fire is a killer player.

Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere And The Raiders did a great job on Night Train and Louie, Louie.

But the "real" players were Bird, Coltrane, Paul Desmond, etc.

[ak50324]

Kenny G!!!(:freak: )

cotrane is god of tenor, Charlie parkie is for alto.

[Kendrix]

No doubt.
In rock its Bobby Keyes on the Stones "Cant you hear me knockin"

[rogersdrummer18]

operation ivy's bad time.......................timeless IMHO

[ChordGirl]

'Let love rule' sax solo is cool

[Lambros]

I could mention several solos in modern jazz/hardbop by Coltrane, Dolphy, Shorter, etc.
The most passionate and technically stunning solos in terms of what's involved, individuality is/are found on most Roland Kirk's tunes, particularly 'Many Blessings' and Mingus' 'Ecclusiastics; he plays the tenor lines and then simultaneously accompanies himself on other saxes. No one like him at all.

http://www.step.no/music/images/RolandKirk.jpg

[Dougdnh]

Favorite rock and roll sax solos? Wow - where do you begin? To me, tenor sax is the essence of early rock and roll and r&b. Even though I play guitar, there's nothing like a good sax solo to add some punch to a rock tune. Here are a few:

Harlem Nocturne - Viscounts
Surfer's Stomp - Markettes
Wild Weekends - Rockin' Rebels
Shotgun - Jr. Walker
Frankie Lyman - Why do Fools Fall in Love
Del Vikings - Come Go With Me
When You Dance - Turbans
Wiggle Wobble - Les Cooper
Handclappin' - Red Prysock
Tequila - Champs
Walkin' With Mr. Lee - Lee Allen
etc, etc

Unfortunately nowadays, you don't hear much rock and roll sax, except for some Bob Seegar and George Thorogood stuff.

[MarkZ]

In a pop/rock song, both are from Phil Woods:

Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu"
Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are"

They do what any solo should: they perfectly fit context of the song and elevate it.

[Lambros]

Good call, man!! Especially the Joel song, yes, it's a pop/rock song with a modern sound (for that time in the mid 70s) overall and yet it is on the verge of being an all time classic American standard, with its verses and bridge, changes etc. Phil really plays well on that tune and generally he bores me, not here though. Very nice approach within in his style without even a hint of parody of his bop style. I gotta listen to Doctor Wu again...

Originally posted by MarkZ
In a pop/rock song, both are from Phil Woods:

Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu"
Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are"

They do what any solo should: they perfectly fit context of the song and elevate it.

[iop]

When ever Johnny and Edger Winter have a falling out Johnny uses our sax player, Tom Strohman. You can find Tom on the JOHNNY WINTER - Raising Cain recording.

Shot Gun and Spooky are two of my favorite sax solo tunes.

[Eye_Of_The_Liger]

Favorite solos? Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years", and pretty much everything that I've heard from Wayne Shorter on "Juju" and from when he was with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

[Pilot]

Without a doubt - Charlie Parker's "Warming Up a Riff" - sheer magic.

Bryan

[Lambros]

Is that tune an early era Bird recording with the McShann band? When it comes to Parker some of my favorite solos aren't the more obvious ones such as 'Ornithology', 'Kim', 'Lover Man', 'I Remember April', 'Mohawk' etc.
I love tunes like 'Just Friends', and 'Repetition' (Parker with Strings) and know most think he's laying back a bit on those cuts because he isn't just flat out ripping through them.
That is what I love about them, his tone and phrasing is just unbelievable.

Originally posted by Pilot
Without a doubt - Charlie Parker's "Warming Up a Riff" - sheer magic.

Bryan

[Pilot]

No, this was at the 1945 session with Dizzy, Miles, Argonne Thornton et al. What happened was that Parker sent out for a new reed, and when he got it he ran it in with a warm up of Cherokee, with Dizzy at the piano. The recording guys decided very quickly to record this and captured one of the greatest solos of all time.

Bryan

[Lambros]

wow, that's an incredible story and the timing sounds right; all 3 of them were in the Billy Eckstine orchestra as well as venturing out on their own in 1945!! Man, that's like the story surrounding how the first 8 cuts of 'First Miles' happened, the only recordings of Parker on tenor (he sounds incredible) and Miles leading that session.
thanks for shedding some light on Warming up a Riff!

Originally posted by Pilot
No, this was at the 1945 session with Dizzy, Miles, Argonne Thornton et al. What happened was that Parker sent out for a new reed, and when he got it he ran it in with a warm up of Cherokee, with Dizzy at the piano. The recording guys decided very quickly to record this and captured one of the greatest solos of all time.

Bryan

[Dougdnh]

For classic jazz sax work, the Kansas City soundtrack has some very cool stuff. The fidelity is amazing as is Joshua Redman's interpretation of Lester Young.

[aaronzarzutzki]

john butchers sax playing is unreal.