What are your favorite saxaphone tunes??? got a clip?

[dixiegrrrrl]

Houston Person - Everything Happens To Me is lovely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OBOcNYmceo

[HopeHoops]

1. The dual bari solo(?) in "Won't You Please Write Me".

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyNr0pY6ak

[Dystopian]

43. One of my all time favorites ...

Love this song...


peace~

[grilled onions]

3. Harlem Nocturne

Heard it once in a teen club that was little more then an old barn with a cement floor. The notes haunted there way up through the rafters.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Rene Block on Alto Sax nails it on HARLEM NOCTURNE by The Johnny Otis Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTzWnjk-10s

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. You weren't kidding!

Thanks...adding to my too short list of good players.

[Brother Buzz]

16. I wanted to post Grover Washington Jr.'s 'Round Midnight....

but I can't find a video. The best cover of Monk's classic, bar none. I miss him.

So instead, I'll post the Big Dog playing the blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alv7N6Ynm1Y

[Javaman]

21. I had the best experience with that song the first time I ever heard it.

Let me weave you a tail from years gone by...

Once upon a time, I was working the NY State Renaissance fair with two partners as professional jugglers (that's a whole other story) back in the early '80's. One weekend, one of my partners, lost the keys for his car and we had to take a "crew" bus back to the city.

It let us off in midtown about 11 pm. My other partner and I decided to walk down to Penn, since it was only a about 10 blocks away, instead of taking the subway.

Some where around around 41st street, we hear music playing. So we decide to find out where it's coming from. We turn down a completely deserted block and hear the strains of "harlem nocturne" echoing out against the buildings. It was enchanting. As we get closer to the player, I see it's an old black man with a snow white beard belting out the tune while sitting up against a building.

We didn't have much dough in our pockets (since we performed at the fair for change and not salary), but I gave him what I could and asked him the name of the song.

Then a really neat thing happened, he said, and I quote, "you are on a quest, find the name out for yourself and start your musical education". He smiled, thanked us for the money and continued to play the song.

I was on a mission. And yes, it began a wonderful musical education :)

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. THAT gave me a smile, goosebumps, and a reminiscent watering of the eyes.

Thank you for sharing that. Marvelous story.

Many doorways from one life experience to the next, most of us, I think, have many strangers to thank who appeared at just the right, brief, time.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Sexy Sax Man "Careless Whisper"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws
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[pacalo]

40. AWESOME!!!

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

5. Boots Randolph

http://youtu.be/Zcq_xLi2NGo

[BrendaBrick]

30. Almost gets me in the mood to do some housework!

[pacalo]

39. I'd get a speeding ticket driving to that song!

But just imagine how fast we could get the cleaning done to that rhythm!

[abq e streeter]

7. Bruce Springsteen and , of course, Clarence Clemons...Paradise By The C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClC1VYzgqSI

[pacalo]

41. Clarence was the absolute BEST.

He made that sax sing.

[abq e streeter]

8. Jungleland--Bruce again, with Clarence's beautiful solo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH_NvYPBDY0

[abq e streeter]

9. And Bobby Keys with The Stones--Can't You Hear Me Knocking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c

[abq e streeter]

10. And finally (???) anything and everything by Gary U.S. Bonds

including...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lkD1dCxRg

[saras]

11. Can't always find clips... and deliberately ignoring jazz

Traffic - Dream Gerrard (from When The Eagle Flies, no clip)

August Musarurwa/Msarurgwa - Skokiaan (no clip, but lots of cover versions - 19 in the year it was released - here's an example)
Ralph Marterie - Skokiaan (jukebox clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4F_E8YJndY)

anything Dana Colley played for Morphine, especially playing two saxes at once.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=985JGeGq_tc">Dana Colley with Morphine - Cure For Pain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT1Z0___g-s">Dana Colley playing two saxes at once

[dimbear]

12. Baker Street n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Totally!

Good tune in its own right, but that sax wailing makes it perfect.
I have cuts of it on about 3 albums I made, plus keep one just on the desktop, for easy reach.

[BlueJazz]

15. One of my favorites Bud Shank--Misty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnv6rO02T8M

[bluesbassman]

17. No sax list would be complete without Shotgun.

That my friends is a GROOVE. B-)

Jr Walker and the Allstars.
http://youtu.be/iMs9NudasVI

[Mendocino]

19. "What Does It Take"

1969 It doesn't get any better.

[argyl]

23. Or "Roadrunner", my personal favorite Jr. Walker tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSosQRiXiPw

[pacalo]

42. "Shotgun", for sure, but my favorite one by Jr. Walker & the All Stars is...

"Gotta Hold on to This Feeling".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvfBji1iEQY&feature=fvst

[sarge43]

18. Body Heat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXQj54IUDQ&feature=related

[Javaman]

20. Dark Eyes by Earl Bostic.

He was a sax player in the '50's and was know for playing sexy songs for strippers.

It's very hard to find, but if you have Spotify, you can hear it.

[Sweet Freedom]

22. Sonny Rollins on Slave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5VtlCDnD9E

(at 2:15)

[Iggo]

24. Pick up the pieces. Uh-huh. Pick up the pieces. Uh-huh...

...Pick up the pieces. Uh-huh. Pick up the pieces. Uh-huh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aGBXrJ6e34

EDIT: No sound at work. I hope that's the right clip.

[kentauros]

25. "My Lovely Horse" - Father Ted

The sax starts around 0:57 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg

[givemebackmycountry]

26. At the 3:51 mark - Michael Brecker decided to peel the paint off the walls...

"Radio-Active" by Steps Ahead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2QbixEZLXk&feature=related

[Zorra]

28. Giant Steps and Us and Them

John Coltrane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

Pink Floyd, Dick Parry on sax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcG47CpsU6c

[BrendaBrick]

29. Grover Washington Jr. "Mr. Magic" Live at the Bijou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0bn_u1fUkg

[Shagbark Hickory]

31. Last Friday Night by Katy Perry featuring Kenny G.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. I see I have a week's worth of good listening here!

What fun!

What varied tastes, too.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[marmar]

33. Soul Eyes......by John Coltrane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hdy5G94AHc

[freethought]

34. Okay, I'll admit it "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News

This came out when I was in high school. I just happened to be in the band and played alto sax along a few other guys. We we absolutely obsessed with trying to play it by ear. Our band conductor was a little frustrated with us because we put in time trying to figure out the sax break in that song.

[Enrique]

35. What's going on

it's only a couple of seconds at the beginning but I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD78i6eoGkM&feature=related

[Brother Buzz]

36. You can't have a proper saxaphone therad without a little Louis Jordan doing some fine Jump Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRqGp-_FBl4

[Ptah]

37. Believe it or not, Take Five, Paul Desmond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI

[pacalo]

38. Do saxophone solos count?

My Kind of Lady -- Supertramp



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftBrd2OKc6s

[vanlassie]

44. Spanish Steps on Poetic Champions Compose

And all the rest of Van's sax on that album. That is the music I turn to the most often for solace.

[MilesColtrane]

45. Cannonball Adderley

Fiddler on the Roof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R-yU8c8NxU