looking for some music with alot of saxaphones

anybody have any recommendations?

 

charlie parker

dave brubek and paul desmond


theres a lot more, but my mind has gone blank...

 

thanks man. i'll check all of those out.

 

Saxaphones? What are they?

 

? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxaphone

 

That's weird. I'm sure I clicked on a link to Saxaphone but it keeps redirecting me to a page on the saxophone. And I bloody know what THEY are, I've got three of them.

But if it's saxophones you're interested in, then please have a listen to this - http://home.ripway.com/2005-5/317901/BenDonnelly-Sunburn-01-SianEvans-Sunburn.mp3 it's a bigband arrangement I've done of a rock-indie song by a band called Muse. The band, for your information includes 5 saxophones but sadly, no saxaphones. I'm not playing on it though as I was engineering the recording.

 

i guess it's spelt saxophone then. fucking sue me. thanks for the mp3. i'll check it.

 

try supersax

 

Duke had a plethora of great sax men

 

If it's saxophone by volume you are after-:

I reccomend 'TheDefinitive Duke Ellington' and 'The Definitive Charles Mingus'.Both had big bands but man how they differed.These are from Ken Burns Jazz series and available cheaply on amazon website.

 

Try Supertramp, they have a lot of saxophones.

 

I have a problem with Ken Burns. He doesn't seem to rate anything after 1950 very highly, and even less anything after 1970. Mind you there's nobody in the world who loves every bit of jazz music there is. The stuff I prefer to avoid is the awfully commercial glenn miller style swing and anything with a strong element of ragtime in it. Also I can only take so much at a time of the really avant garde stuff. And I wouldn't miss vocal jazz if it ceased to exist, particularly in small ensembles. The occasional vocal number with a bigband is great but the trouble with that is that vocalists then try to steal the show and make the band their own personal backing group. And let's face it, the downside with Frank Sinatra (exactly the same as with John Coltrane) is all the stupid bastards who try to immiatate him. In a small ensemble with a vocalist leading, well it rather ruins the whole spontaneous element of jazz as a vocalist is by the lyrics, and really all vocal jazz is is a classical aria with jazz harmony and vocal style. There's a place for it but not, in my opinion, under the label of jazz.

Can we have a clarification of the request by the way? Was it for music with lots of saxophones in it or music full of saxophone features? Ie are you looking to hear saxophone sections in large numbers or really good saxophone solos?

 

John Coltrane is a great way to get into sax.

 

I wouldn't say that. John Coltrane is pretty advanced stuff - the saxophonists' saxophonist. Also a lot of his stuff isn't very melodic - it's very intellectual and to the untrained ear just sounds like a load of scheidt (not Samuel). Charlie Parker would be a better one to get into, as well as the likes of Lester Young. Michael Brecker is a big favourite of mine as well as he is one of those really rare people with both superb technique and really creative musicality. I also admit to a weakness for the cheesy pornsax stuff, mainly propogated by the legendary David Sanborn and Dutch sax-babe Candy Dulfer.

 

David Sanborn is not 'cheesy pornsax' . He is a highly-regarded alto man.
kenny G maybe:sunglasse

 

Oh, I don't mean to dis Sanborn, he is a legend, but some of his stuff is PURE cheese. Have you heard "The Dream" ? Great fun to play, mind. Also my point was that he's a bit more accessible than John Coltrane. Not just a bit actually.

Also Mr G can fuck off.

 

" some of his stuff is PURE cheese."

Oh no it isn't

 

Oh it yes it is

Now we KNOW it's nearly christmas.

http://home.ripway.com/2005-5/317901/DavidSanborn-TheDream.mp3

Tell me that's not cheese!

 

It is not cheese

 

Blimey. When I you tell me what your idea of cheese is I'll be sure to steer well clear of it then!