Great sax solos

[Alan]

I hope we can find room for Issa Cissokho's wonderful sax in Orchestra Baobab's Utru Horas, soundtrack for any desert island

[Gordon Neill]

You're all wrong. The best sax solo is on Jay Randall's version of 'Crazy Face', which is possibly the best swamp pop record not on Another Saturday Night. A wonderful break which uses just the one note for much of the solo. You can find it on The Lanor Records Story. Er... at least I think it's a sax....

[nikki akinjinmi]

Anyone mentioned the lovely sax playing on Tom Robinson's "War Baby"? Not sure who was playing.

By the way, I seem to recall Charlie doing a great show with songs where saxophones featured quite prominently, I think on what was called the City Beat (on Capital Radio).

[Dayna]

Yesterday I heard one more song with a sax solo.

Time passages by Cat Stevens

It's a pretty song.

[NormanD]

Time passages by Cat Stevens

Isn't this by Al Stewart?

[Dayna]

It might be wrong. It's what I thought I heard from the radio yesterday.

Twistin The Night Away
Promrose Lane
Mama Don't Dance and Your Daddy Don't Rock and Roll
I Feel Good

[{{d(-0-)b}}]

is that a cake or a merangue?

no you're right it's a cake.

[Charlie]

Twistin' The Night Away

Yes, Sam Cooke and a great sax solo on one of the few good records with Twist in the title. The sax player sounds like King Curtis but I have a feeling that it's somebody else, not nearly so well known

I Feel Good

and yes again, James Brown with Maceo Parker at his best , and we shouldn't forget the two of them locking horns again on 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag' a few months later.

[gordonfmoore]

Just reheard One Step Beyond - Madness, now that was a nice bit of sax playing, good to get the feet moving again after all these years.

[I did re-read this thread and didn't spot this one, but if it was there, sorry!]

[Martin_Edney]

Just reheard One Step Beyond - Madness

Personally I'll always vote for their "Night Boat to Cairo". They don't seem to be considered very cool these days, but I still enjoy Madness' music.

[Dayna]

I found another one.

Gigi---Tew Ante Sew

[Tonie]

Three classic girlie hits with sax:
"Respect" - Aretha Franklin's version - a great sax interlude
"Careless Whisper" - Back when we thought George was straight...
"Vem vet" - Lisa Ekdahl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edcc3hopnH4
The song that made Lisa world famous (in Scandinavia) and which you could not escape in the early 90s. Wait, is that a sax or a trumpet? In my memory it was a sax, but relistening to it I think it's a trumpet... Well, it's a great song so I'll put it anyway.

[judith]

Since its beginning, everytime I read this thread, I see my mom on piano, singing Bei Mir Bist du Shoen while my dad wails away on his sax and can't get the song (their version) out of my head. (Another thread, head worms). I don't know if the Andrew Sisters' version had a sax in it. Finally I looked around on the internet and found this article about the composer of Bei Mir Bist du Shoen, Sholom Secunda. Not only is it an interesting read, it tells a tale of royalties lost, then found again - which is another thread - but oh well


http://www.dvrbs.com/swing/SholomSecund ... Schoen.htm

[Dayna]

I had this hear & then deleted it because I 'm not sure if it's interesting.
Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim---Nyambol.

[will vine]

Hello fellas..............just to let you know I'm still around having been out of the game for a couple of months since my wife introduced our PC to the delights of orange juice. It's still broken and unreplaced but I hope I can get back permanently soon. In the meantime this is a very short opportunity to be in front of a screen and having browsed a fair bit of the correspondance that has gone down in my absence this is the only topic I can immediately respond to, so here goes.............
I compiled a CD for distribution around the CD circle which contained a splendid early Jethro Tull track which amused and horrified the other group members and betrayed my early musical leanings. I stand by many of these, now widely derided favourites by here nominating, partly out of devilment, an alto sax solo by none other than the great guitar gunslinger himself.......... Rory Gallagher. Check out "It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again" from Taste's On The Boards LP. No seriously go on !