The Joy Of Sax

[TheChampers]

Wandering around YT I reminded myself of Hazel O’Connor’s Will You, which made me think of the great but unlauded songs with great sax parts (so no need for Baker Street brilliant as it is). Nominations?

Will You

https://youtu.be/Ou96vLl--e4

Spear Of Destiny - These Days Are Gone

https://youtu.be/3wl0REO-GDk

The Sisters Of Mercy - Dominion

https://youtu.be/qWvOHT0zfXY

The PsychedelicFurs - Heartbeat

https://youtu.be/OAMvTW3P3fM

[Escapegoat]

Sade's Smooth Operator has a decent sax break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A

Pink Floyd, going from sublime understatement to pure freak-out awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbeqj-1XOo

That Supertramp one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3Kk5tZSmo

[robsa]

Will you - just so amazing!

Anyway, one that sprang to mind is Trojans by the Damned:

https://youtu.be/7bUWHRbGuKc

And Tim Capello's 'I still believe' from the Lost Boys:

https://youtu.be/PdaaGlyu7EQ

[Turn7]

Will you is one of the MOST heartwrenching piece of music Ive ever heard,(taken within context),Ive always loved it, and the whole film Breaking Glass tbh...

Edited by Turn7 on Saturday 8th September 21:55

[robsa]

Turn7 said:

Will you is one of the MOST heartwrenching piece of music Ive ever heard,(taken within context),Ive always loved it, and the whole film Breaking Glass tbh...

It's a brilliant album too.

[Zad]

Will You is certainly one of the most under-rated tracks. Touching, sensitive, sexy, evocative, emotional, almost painful. The sax player Wesley Magoogan is notable for having subsequently lost a hand in an industrial accident.

Hall & Oates, Man Eater (wo-ah here she comes, she's a fan heater) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek

As time goes on, I find I listen to tracks from my childhood (and not so childhood) with a different ear, without the overblown cheesy and cliché connotations of the original release. For example:

George Michael, Careless Whisper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ

And no sax list is complete without Raph Ravenscroft. Baker Street. Here is is in 12 inch form which allows the sax part to properly resolve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Yi762sQTo

[dandarez]

While agreeing with a lot of above, no list is complete without this man - he's 'gonna blow for you'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub72eylahJg


And still in the sixties, how can anyone forget Dick Heckstall-Smith of Colosseum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKq6aBrMft8

[freddytin]

Urgent ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA6id4--BDg

Edit... Jump to .2.50min

Edited by freddytin on Thursday 20th September 22:25

[CAPP0]

Escapegoat said:

Pink Floyd, going from sublime understatement to pure freak-out awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbeqj-1XOo

To add to that, the sax solo towards the end of Shine on: https://youtu.be/cWGE9Gi0bB0?t=10m53s

When it's played live, the saxophonist swaps from a tenor to an alto halfway through.

I used to be able to fight my way (badly!) through most of that, but I haven't played my (tenor) sax in far too many years now. I did get it out of the cupboard last year but several pads had dried out and were passing; I need to get it really well serviced before I can even think about blowing again.

[ninepoint2]

The King of sax must be the late Clarence Clemons, his solos were nothing short of magical

[Some Gump]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1B3agGNxw

[freddytin]

Some Gump said:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1B3agGNxw

Thank you Mr Gump