Best Sax Jazz

Billy Harper's Sessions

Out of print LPs:
Love On The Sudan (Denon)
Knowledge of Self (Denon)
The Believer (Baystate)

Out of print CD:
Soran-Bushi (Denon)

Currently Available CDs:
Destiny Is Yours (Steeplechase)
Black Saint (Black Saint)

With Randy Weston:
Saga (Gitanes/Verve)
Spirits of Our Ancestors

With Woody Shaw:
Love Dance (currently released on CD in combination with another good Woody Shaw session)

With Lee Morgan:
Last Session (Blue Note)

Sonny Rollins is my favorite. Super smooth and like butter. I worked in the studio with him for several years. But there are a lot of other great ones.

Frank Morgan..."listen to the dawn"

There are many candidates here..The big round fat classic sound : Ben Webster,Coleman Hawkins, Scott Hamilton and Gerry Mulligan (he played baritone) lyrically: Stan Getz, Cannonball Adderly, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond (he's an alto guy) Then there is Coltrane all around and for some very cool, out stuff you could try Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy(alto and excellent bass clarinet and flute as well from him) Most of these guys pretty much played tenor exclusively. Too many to list and once again some great players are left off.

My favourite is Dexter Gordon's "Our Man in Paris". Sonny Rollins first Blue Note album is a close second (I forget the name ... I think it may just be called Sonny Rollins).
I have never liked Coltrane ... just not my thing.

You've got to have a Gerry Mulligan album also. Bari sax is just a fabulous instrument ... I'm a tenor player, and if a good bari didn't cost more than my car I'd have a bari too.