Name your favorite sax solo.

Tom Scott "DESIRE" every tune on this album was amazing.If you like the sax you have to check it out.

For me, Don Byrd's BLUE NOTE Lp Title, "Free Form".....credits W. Shorter as writer, of its Best tunes. This performance captures a period of Post-Bop with EACH tunes' feel. The resulting Aesthetic, owes its compelling affect, to an uncommonly powerful emotional release.....scarcely matched elsewhere in Shorter's recorded archives... On side II -- Shorter's "French Spice" The intense anguish, the single notes that soar, with a longing, of DESPERATION......some notes in this solo....to me, it's as if his reed is going to snap...emotional involvment asked of the listener, is more
than some listener's CAN give.....

Here are a few more.

Sonny Rollins with Elvin Jones and others,in a Live Village Vanguard recording of "Four".

John Coltrane playing soprano sax on "My Favorite Things."

Perhaps it's been exposed too much, but Paul Desmond on "Take Five" defined a style. No alto player since has dared use those hard reeds and dry tone. To me, it's the definition of how jazz alto should sound. Of course, Pauls discography is a treasure trove of great sax.

Dave

not really all that ground breaking but boy the Sax in Baker Street by Jerry Raferdy (sp) makes a good song great.