Help! Best Rock Album Where Tenor Sax is Prominent???

[pilot87178d]

Would love to know anyone's opinion on which rock groups sport the best tenor sax.....I do like some of the swing done by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, but much of it sounds the same and the sax parts are pretty simple. Can anyone recommend a good Rock cd that features tenor sax prominently?
Thanks!!!
Marc

[saxophobe]

The one that leaps to my mind is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" with Dick Parry, even though he only plays on two songs. This is certainly one of the most played.... If I think of any more I will post later.

[Neil Sharpe]

I'd suggest that you post your question in the Rock N' Roll Sax category. You should get a quick response.

[Vortex]

I'm with saxophobe, check out Dark Side of the Moon. The tenor playing in this album is pretty tasty - listen carefully in the hot parts of "Us And Them"... wow! Although Dick Parry plays this in more of a rock-ballad style, everyone should hear this album; I think of it almost as a Kind of Blue in the rock genre.

[littlemanbighorn]

I'm partial to "Funhouse" by the Stooges (title track), the first few King Crimson albums (In the Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon, and Islands), Bobby Keyes on the Stones' "Exile on Main Street" and "Sticky Fingers".

[kindofblue]

Sonny Rollins on the Stones' "Tattoo You". Plays on "Neighbors", "Waiting on a Friend", and my favorite, "Slave".

[Bill Mecca]

Touch me by the Doors,

Most of Springsteen's stuff,

This is a wide open question, how do you define Rock?

Do you want individual artists, how narrow a field?, blues, R&B solo sax stuff?

Check out the Rock and Roll discussion forum and you will find a ton of stuff to listen to.

Many "Rock" Albums might feature a guest artist on sax on a tune or two, while other genre like Blues and R&B will feature it more prominently as part of the band, or the leader... all depends upon your definition/categorization. To me, its all just music (cept rap) :lol:

[Neil Sharpe]

"Rock n' Roll" now covers a wide territory but if you want to check out the album that as much as any, ushered in the era of the rock n' roll sax, check out Little Richard on "Here's Little Richard" on Specialty Records featuring Lee Allen and Grady Gaines on many terrific tracks.

Or Red Prysock on his album "Rock n Roll" featuring the classic "Hand Clappin'". Also, King Curtis on the Coasters' songs "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown". For a change of pace, and a great sax solo, check out Sonny Rollins on the Rolling Stones' "Waiting for a Friend".

For more recent albums, anything by Greg Picolo, Sax Gordon, or Johnny Ferreira formerly of Colin James' Little Big Band especially the song The Boogie Twist Part II.