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Favorite Lesser Known Sax Players

Trane, Rollins, Bird, Desmond, Getz, Hawkins and Lester Young are names that are oftened invoked when the subject of great jazz sax players is brought up. Who are some of your favorite, albeit lesser known, sax players and your favorite recording of theirs? As a sax hack, I'll offer the following suggestions to chew on:

Willis 'Gator' Jackson - Call of the Gators
Red Holloway - In the Red
James Moody - Don't Look Back Now
Tina Brooks - True Blue
King Curtis - Night Train
Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge
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Duane took most of the good ones, but I thought of another few

Jemeel Moodock
Patrick Cress (bay area local)
Marty Erhlich
Frank Gratkowski
Marco Eneidi
Andrew D'Angelo
Steve Lacy
Evan Parker
Rudresh Mahanthappa (plays with Vijay Iyer)
John Butcher
Mats Gustafsson
Jonas Kullhammar
Joe McPhee
Rob Brown
Joe Maneri
Chris Speed
Julius Hemphill
Henry Threadgill
Jimmy Lyons
David S. Ware
Glen Spearman
Roscoe Mitchell
Lol Coxhill
Ori Kaplan
Ian Ballamy
Michael Moore
Mars Williams

ALBERT AYLER (last but probably most important)
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