List 5 Essential Saxophonists On Your Shelf

[Seneca]

You know the drill... :-)

1. John Coltrane

2. Ornette Coleman

3. Dick Parry

4. John Zorn

5. Wayne Shorter

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. You forgot Mulligan!

Schmuck. ;-)

[Seneca]

2. No flames!

:P

I also forgot Cannonball. Maybe I am a schmuck!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. What about this one?

[Seneca]

4. Clever!

:-)

[mac56]

5. Stan Getz, Paul Desmond, King Curtis

belong on that list.

[Seneca]

6. I have a Getz/Oscar Peterson Trio collaboration

Some sweet stuff. :-)

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Bird Parker

[Seneca]

8. Ah yes

He would make my list 4 out of 5 nights a week, and I picked this one. x(

[peekaloo]

9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk

[Allenberg]

10. The lack of David Sanborn and Kenny G

makes me sad. :(

Although, technically, Kenny G was a soprano saxophonist...I still think he qualifies. :)

[ben_thayer]

11. Pharaoh Sanders eom

[chaska]

12. You must check out Joe Maneri!!! Link handily provided.

http://joemaneri.com/

[Lannes]

13. Some

John Coltrane

Lester Young

Sonny Rollins

Stan Getz

Stanley Turrentine

[Cornjob]

14. Gotta Add Grover Washington, Jr.!

Always liked his playing.

[Beausoir]

15. Boots Randolph? n/t

[Ann Arbor Dem]

16. Here are five who haven't been mentioned.

Five (in total) is too few. ;)

Frank Lowe
Patience Higgins
Faruk Z. Bey
David Murray
Joe Henderson

[Ann Arbor Dem]

17. Dupe

[markus]

18. Another vote for Rahsaan and Pharoah

I'm not a musician or a sufficiently sophisticated jazzophile (my avatar non-withstanding) to name five without embarrassing myself. But these are two people who moved me and changed me life (as is my avatar).

If the Love is Everywhere import I've finally tracked down and hoped to have by now doesn't arrive soon, I'm gonna freak. I've been trying to replace that destroyed LP for almost 20 years.

(No worries, the only MP3 I ever downloaded from a pirate net was Love Is Everywhere, Side 1, but I figured I paid for two damn copies, I'm entitled to the MP3).

We Are All Eulipions.

[havocmom]

19. Coleman Hawkins

and my dad.