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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Hope on October 25, 2016, 12:43:22 PM

Title: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Hope on October 25, 2016, 12:43:22 PM
OK, the title gives a fairly broad scope, but have just been listening to Pink Floyd's 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond' and wondered whether the sax part towards the end of the piece is one of the best around. Another suggestion was the sax in Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street'.
Title: Re: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Jack Knave on October 25, 2016, 08:04:40 PM
That's just pop music. The best sax players are from the Jazz world.
Title: Re: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Gordon on October 25, 2016, 08:47:12 PM
Quote from: Hope on October 25, 2016, 12:43:22 PM
OK, the title gives a fairly broad scope, but have just been listening to Pink Floyd's 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond' and wondered whether the sax part towards the end of the piece is one of the best around. Another suggestion was the sax in Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street'.

The two players, Dick Parry and the late Raphael Ravenscroft respectively, are/were top sessions guys of course but, as JK says, jazz is where you'd hear more sax virtuosity than riffs in popular song. My personal favourite is Sonny Rollins - a well known example of his genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4DTR0I7xhA
Title: Re: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2016, 09:16:40 PM
It's difficult to pick a favourite on such a wide category, sometimes it is is Dexter Gordon though.

https://m.youtube.com/?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#/watch?v=-xGPHseCQrI


In terms of Hope's OP, probably Clarence Clemons on Born to Run
Title: Re: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Anchorman on October 25, 2016, 09:22:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKiOCLcnMU I like the stuff from the folk/rock combo Iona - "Flight of the Wild Geese" or "Heaven's bright sun" come to mind for starters.
Title: Re: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Gordon on October 25, 2016, 09:23:23 PM
Dexter Gordon - another genius, along with Cannonball Adderley, Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane - all of whom I found more accessible than Charlie Parker.   
Title: Re: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 29, 2016, 08:38:44 PM
I always find it weird that the entire saxophone family are transposing instruments. With the Bass Saxophone, for example, the note which sounds as G2 is written as E5.
Title: Re: Best sax solo/input in 'modern' music
Post by: Hope on October 29, 2016, 08:47:03 PM
Quote from: Anchorman on October 25, 2016, 09:22:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKiOCLcnMU I like the stuff from the folk/rock combo Iona - "Flight of the Wild Geese" or "Heaven's bright sun" come to mind for starters.
Brilliant piece of music - as are all of Iona's stuff.  By the way, what's that guitar that isn't - is it some sort of autoharp?