Name your favorite sax solo.

Coleman Hawkins has so many beyond "Body & Soul". "Self Portrait" from the "Meets Duke Ellington" album and virtually all of "Hawk Flies High" come to mind. Also Cannonball Adderly has a bunch of great ones, but I particularly like "Can't Get Started" from the Nancy Wilson LP. Boy, there are a lot out there.

Lrsky & Frog,

Good to find I'm not alone on "Can't Get Started", as everything I've ever seen written about the Wilson/Cannonball record seems to focus on Nancy Wilson - probably no surprise. As I'm still kind of new to Jazz (about 5+ years, now), I thought that I might get some grief for the choice, particularly since my taste tends toward the more traditional, while many here seem to prefer the bold innovators.

Since I'm still "connecting the dots" in Jazz, I had a couple of questions. Lrsky mentions earlier works by Charlie Parker that "predict" Adderly's solo. I was wondering which Parker recordings were being referenced here. Also, I haven't really warmed up to the later, "harder" soloists (e.g. Coltrane). So I was wondering if there are "transitional" records in which the seeds of this style are first seen. I find that I'm more receptive to new music when I understand how it has emerged from a more familiar reference point.

Thanks in advance.

Marty

Larry (and Orpheus),

Thanks for the commentary. At the time of my post, I was asking whether the comment Larry made re: "Can't Get Started" evoking Charlie Parker was based on any specific Parker solo(or solos) that he had in mind when you made the statement.

There are a handful of sax greats who stun me just about every time, and both Parker and the Cannonball are among them.

Marty