cemcan1245
6 posts
Dec 17, 2013
2:02 AM
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hey everybody , i wanna know which sax players do you recommend me for listening , i love dirty blues
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kudzurunner
4452 posts
Dec 17, 2013
4:47 AM
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Use the "forum search" engine and search for "sax" and "saxophone." I know we've discussed this before. BBQ Bob has listed a dozen great players, and I always list the following, all of whose recordings I've listened to and learned from:
Houston Person
Arnett Cobb
Willis "Gatortail" Jackson
Maceo Parker
Hank Crawford
Stanley Turrentine
King Curtis
Here's one such thread:
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/538127.htm
Here's another. I started both of these; I guess I'm interested in the subject!:
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/552427.htm
Hal Singer is a good one:
Here's a guy who teaches major and minor blues on sax in an accessible way:
Jimmy Forrest's "Bolo Blue" was Bob Porter's theme song on his blues show. I bought the album and jammed along with it many times.
Here's the album:
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Train-Jimmy-Forrest/dp/B000004BFF/
Here's a gem: Forrest performing "Night Train" with the Count Basie band:
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Dec 17, 2013 5:04 AM
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Greg Heumann
2516 posts
Dec 17, 2013
9:25 AM
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Also check out Terry Hanck - still performs all over the country. Great guy.
Here I was on stage with him, me playing bari:
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barbequebob
2404 posts
Dec 17, 2013
10:17 AM
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Here's one I take quite a bit from and that's West Coast saxman Joe Houston, and this tune below, called Way Out, he has also recorded under various titles like Rockin' With Joe, Goofin' and Joe's Goofin' and I often do this on the bandstand in the key of Eb:
This tune by Illinois Jacquet, he originally did with Lionel Hampton, if you have a copy of James Cotton's classic instrumental, The Creeper, he quotes this tune and if you listen carefully, you can hear some lines often quoted by other harp players, including LW:
Below is one that when I started out, nearly every band used it as a warm up tune and the sax and guitar stuff has been iconic enough that many of them cover it note for note, and here you have both parts 1 & 2 (there are actually about 3 more, but these are the most popular)"
Here's another one from Bill Doggett and if you listen carefully to both this tune as well as Honky Tonk, you will hear exactly where the Frank Frost instrumental Harpin' On It featuring Little Arthur Williams on harp comes from:
This is just a small amount, as there are many more that I can put here.
I know for a fact LW also quoted jassman Charlie Parker
tune Salt Peanuts on part of Flying Saucer and if you listen carefully to Roller Coaster, the influence of Illinois Jacquet is all over it.
You actually can learn a lot by NEVER just listening only harp players and many of the best stole tons of stuff from horn players, but they also did from guitar players and keyboard players as well, including yours truly.
BTW, in Cotton's original recording of The Creeper on his old Verve/Forecast LP from around 1967, he also quoted part of Count Basie's One O'Clock Jump.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Last Edited by barbequebob on Dec 17, 2013 10:19 AM
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barbequebob
2405 posts
Dec 17, 2013
10:24 AM
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Here's another tune I often do by New Orleans bluesman Tommy Ridgely called Jam Up, and I also do it with part of it where the band volume gradually drops to almost a silence and then gradually comes back up (and the increases and decreases are done SLOWLY, which at jams, can be next to impossible to accomplish given the type of players in most oftem) and can be a great lesson in dynamics.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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tmf714
2272 posts
Dec 17, 2013
10:28 AM
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Alto Sax:
Louis Jordan
Earl Bostic
Tab Smith
Johnnny Hodges
Tenor Sax:
Lester Young
Red Prysock
Willis Jackson
Illinois Jacquet
Ben Webster
Jimmy Forest
Gene Ammons
Stanley Turrentine
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Ike Quebec
Paul Quninichette
Baritone Sax:
Paul WIlliams
Leo Parker
Last Edited by tmf714 on Dec 17, 2013 10:29 AM
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barbequebob
2406 posts
Dec 17, 2013
11:09 AM
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All of those guys are badasses I listen to quite often. Some other ones I'd throw in the mix is Coleman Hawkins and Plas Johnson (who's better known for playing the sax part in the Pink Panther movies.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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garry
480 posts
Dec 18, 2013
5:50 AM
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i've always been partial to the saxophone played by john almond on john mayall's "the turning point" album.
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barbequebob
2411 posts
Dec 18, 2013
11:29 AM
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Here's a pair of Junior Walker & The All Stars tunes I've done and were often staples of set warm up tunes when I started out back in the 70's:
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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barbequebob
2412 posts
Dec 18, 2013
11:50 AM
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Below is Cootie Williams with Willis Gator Tail Jackson
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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