Who is your SAX IDOL?

[CONN-hunter]

ALto: Paul Desmond



Tenor: Randy Sherwood http://www.youtube.com/user/SaxyGuyD.../9/ARS5cmRwzyk

[KeithL]

Tenor; Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Charlie Rouse, Johnny Griffin

Bari; Joe Temperly, Pepper Adams, Doc Kupka

Alto; Fathead Newman, Jay Beckenstein, Phil Woods

[tflanster]

The question is "Who is . . . ?" Not "Who are . . . " Why all the many names? Pick one. Hard, huh?

For me - Phil Woods.

[Frankmsax]

I have too many to list but I'll name a few:
Tenor- Michael Brecker, Lenny Pickett, Sax Gordon, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, Keith Crossan, Ben Ellman, Steve Marcus, Joshua Redman, etc. etc.
Alto- Phil Woods, Dave Sanborn, Maceo Parker, Candy Dulfer, Charlie Parker and on and on they all play better than me

[jrvinson45]

They have come and gone through the years. Some persist some don't. Too many flavors.

[kevvieg]

Alto: Phil Woods, Cannonball, Art Pepper
Tenor: Getz, Brecker, Mike Murley
Bari: Pepper Adams , Nick Brignola
Soprano: Branford Marsalis

Bass & Lower: Scott Robinson

[tomsch]

Right now I'm digging on Bob Reynolds on tenor.

[Save Trees]

Claude Delangle.

I want to be just like him.

Also Yasuto Tanaka. I want sound like him.

[Debber]

Just one?? Nah, can't possibly choose just one, so:

Yard, Bird, Yardbird, Charlie Chan, Sir Charles Birdingley-Parker

Oh, i almost forgot Charlie Parker

[gloss1]

Jr. Walker should have been up there with the greats but for some reason he is not. He owned that upper register on that 63 Selmer Mark VI.

[Saxman96]

Tenor: Sonny Rollins, Grover Washington Jr (Grover Washington Jr is The one I listen to the most!!!!), John Coltrane, Nelson Rangell, Ornette Coleman, Jay Beckenstein, Marcus Anderson, Richard Elliot, Boney James, Tom Grant, Steve Cole and Bill Clinton.

Alto: Grover Washington Jr, Charlie Parker, Nelson Rangell, Jay Beckenstein, Najee, Michael Lington, Peter King, Phillip Martin, David Sanborn, Boney James, Dave Koz, Paul Taylor

Soprano: Grover Washington Jr, Euge Groove, Kenneth Gorelick, Jaared

Others: Earth Wind and Fire, Michael and Janet Jackson, Take 6, The Rippingtons, Wayman Tisdale, Russ Freeman, Norman Brown, Miles Davis, Sonny Clark, Leon Ayers, Jr.,Nils, Patrick Yandall, Pat Metheny and his Band, Pat Metheny Group, Paul Brown, Kurt Elling, Lee Ritenour, Joe Sample, George Duke, Fred Hersch, Doc Powell, Fourplay, David Benoit, Clifton Anderson, Brian Lynch, Basia, Al Jarreau, Andrea Bocelli, Chris Botti, Bob James, Dave Valentin, Jeff Lorber, Peter White, Torcuato Mariano, Tom Grant, Marc Antoine, Chris Geith and Acoustic Alchemy

[Grimmell73]

Kenny G.






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[Grimmell73]

Wow, that was a perfect thread-killer! In truth: Gotta be Desmond.

[saxphil]

Dex and jazzsaxtenor on YouTube (Aubra Graves), Lester.
... love Jr. & Maceo.. Gordon Beadle.

I wish King Curtis was playing today, no one would touch him.

[MartinMusicMan]

I wish King Curtis was playing today, no one would touch him.

Amen.

[Frankmsax]

Sad part is, King Curtis was playing in a small club in my hometown when I was in grade school. I'll always remember seeing his name on the marquee outside but I was much too young to go in and hear him. He is definitely in my top list of players also, especially in the r&b and soul genres .

[ikbtops]

Alto: Jesse Davis,Cannonball,Sonny Stitt
Tenor: Sonny Stitt,Dexter Gordon

[AcidRa1n]

Bird and Dexter Gordon!

[StanleySaxMan]

I think I would like to add Sal Lozano to my list.

[Rockplayer]

Plas Johnson, Jr. Walker, Red Prysok, Sil Austin, Lee Allen and King Curtis.