Who are your favorite Sax players?
I am probably a sinner. I like Sonny Rollins better than Coltrane…
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Who are your favorite Sax players?
I am probably a sinner. I like Sonny Rollins better than Coltrane…
Wendell Newton.
Alto Reed, Bob Segar's long time sax player. How could you ask for a better name for a horn player?
Although a lot of people lionize him, Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band was one of my least favorite sax players. The guy just would not shut the fuck up. My first Springsteen concert was 4 hours of sax solos without a break, I swear. Don't get me wrong, I love sax, just not every fucking minute when the singer isn't singing.
Dan I'm with you on Springsteen and dear CC.
Richard Parry who's played with Pink Floyd is one of my fave rock sax players. Stones sideman Bobby Keys too.
As for jazz jazz, I've never been big into the Coltrane era stuff. I love horn players such as Louis Armstrong, mostly because I like jazz of the 20s-40s mostly. Bebop just doesn't get me like the earlier stuff did.
On sax two favorites are King Curtis and Steve Douglas.
Paul Desmond & Jimmy Giuffre. Neither of these guys are considered "heavyweights", but they just had great chops & tone.
Jimmy is mostly known for clarinet, but also played sax. I found out about him when I was going through a Jim Hall phase.
I like bebop but can only take in small doses. Late-era Coltrane was just screeching imoQuote:
Originally Posted by ch willie
I never liked Coltrane's or Davis's late years. Too noisy and not really cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cogs
Miles davis was a great musician but not innovative. More like Bob Wills, he was quick to see popular trends in music & incorporate them into whatever he was doing.
You can thank Sun Ra for the overblown screech that plagued modern jazz in the mid to late '60s. It's like they got so overly technical & complex in bebop that the only place to go was chaos
I like pretty much everything Miles did in the 50s and early 60s. But then he started being too "free of form" for my own taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cogs