Topic: Holy Jazz..

[Hexx]

Hey all
Don't know if any of you can help me but I've actually just heard Raphael Ravenscroft play on Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street"
Song's OK but the Sax is amazing.
Since I (sort of) remember some of you saying you listened to Jazz I was wondering if anyone knows of any similar sax (said sax Kroma) music I can listen to.
(Yes I've had an unpriveleged life when it comes to music)

[Lepton]

I don't know this particular artist, so you'd have to describe the style a bit for me to give you an answer.  However, if you like jazz or just great music. you can't go wrong with these folks when it comes to sax:

John Coltrane:  Early sixties in one of Miles Davis' early combos (a bit of bebop), later with his own quartet, albums before the free jazz experiments and after.  He's a god.
Sonny Rollins:  A great counterpoint to Coltrane, different styles, both amazing (bop/straight ahead jazz)
Cannonball Adderly (spelling?): also to be found in early combos with Miles Davis and his own group
Wayne Shorter: with Miles Davis during his amazing modal/tonal jazz period (ESP, Filles de Kilimanjaro, etc), beautiful, emotional, yet intellectual jazz, and of course with his own combos

Now if you are looking for jazz pre-1960:
Charlie Parker, of course, the father of bebop and modern sax playing, hell, modern jazz
Dexter Gordon
Lester Young

If you tend more toward free jazz raucousness:
Ornette Coleman:  Screechy wild blues
Archie Shepp: Ballsy, groaning, wailing
Eric Dolphy:  Experimental and exploratory
John Coltrane: again, he's a god:  Love Supreme, Transition, great albums

As for current sax players, I don't really listen to them.  Most pale in comparison to the giants of old.

[Hexx]

 

Thanks for the list Lepton.
I have no idea how to describe this guys style.
Sadly enough it's the first time I've ever listened to a sax in a song.
I'll be working my way thorugh that list though,
Thanks!

[Strafer]

Gee, Hexx.
In one thread you're talking Cowboy Bebop with Bear, in the other saxxy jazz.

I see a theme forming....

[762_XC]

Hexxypoo, check out Branford Marsalis. He is arguably the most talented sax player of our generation.

And if anyone mentions Kenny G to you, smack him several times with a dead fish.