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| Jazz for aficionados @ho249 David Sanborn definitely belongs on any list of great alto players. I own many of his CDs as a leader and sideman. Sanborn recorded on a lot of sessions with tenor Michael Brecker who has been discussed here a lot recently. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman All great choices with Lee Konitz as the stand out (for me, anyway). Miguel Zenon I have a handful of his CDs and like all of them. Mariano and Macpherson I need to make an effort to check out their recording catalogs. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos Hal McKusick I wish he had made more recordings as a leader and a few live recordings. I purchased this in 2018 and listen to it often. HM definitely belongs on the list of great alto players MCKUSICK,HAL - 7 Classic Albums - Amazo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "JEEP" There is technical improvisation and emotional improvisation and I would nominate Hodges as one of the greatest at emotional improvisation. What a classic "bluesy tone/feel", something that Cannonball Adderly displays as well. Duke Ellin... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos Frank Morgan and Art Pepper have 4 things in common. They both belong on the list of greatest all time alto players. They both had ongoing heroin addiction problems throughout their lives. They both spent a substantial amount of tim... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk A great group of alto players. I am an Art Pepper completist and have well over 50 CDs of Pepper in my collection. Jackie McLean recorded 3 albums in the 60s that are on my desert island list. Kenny Garrett and Vincent Herring. I have... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @acman3 Pwj, Good group of alto players, but you might have to add Parker, because most of your list was built on The Bird! Yes, Parker’s innovations and technical virtuosity influenced not just every saxophone player, be it alto, tenor, sopr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados More alto Benny Carter, in "I Cant Get Started", Live Concert, London, 1966. - YouTube Phil Woods - Freedom Jazz Dance + Ballad - 1969 Paris (Live Video) - YouTube | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister I apologize to all ... I erased my useless answers ... ?? Anyway...The best alto player? who's your favorites? Here is a few of mine Cannonball Adderley Quintet feat. Joe Zawinul (Oslo, 1969) NRK (c) - YouTube Art Pepper - Kong... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Last night I listened to this Charlie Rouse album live at Bimbo's 365 Club. Rouse would die of lung cancer just 7 weeks after this recording. Introduction and a couple tunes. Some Words About Monk (Live at Bimbo's 365 Club / San Francisco, CA / ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Just purchased a very rare OOP Phil Woods CD Live at the Five Spot 1957. The seller is located in NYC so I should have it by this weekend! It is not on Spotify but maybe you all can check Amazon HD, Tidal and Qobuz. Here is the track list Cecil ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @ezwind Sonny Rollins Quartet Symphony Hall, Boston 10/19/78 I was never aware of that concert until I read the new Sonny Rollins biography recently. That concert was an attempt at by Milestone Records, of whom Rollins, Carter, Tyner and... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Daniel Humair: Cool Trading with Attila Zoller and Mike Formanek - YouTube Never Odd Or Even Final1080 by the Michael Formanek Drome Trio with Chet Doxas and Vinnie Sperrazza - YouTube The Rub And Spare Change - YouTube | |
| Jazz for aficionados Brecker Michael Brecker - Softly as in a morning sunrise - YouTube Coltrane Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Live At The Village Vanguard, 1961) - YouTube Rollins Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Live From Village Vanguard/1957/The Rudy Van Gel... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister Here is a couple more with multiple baritones Line for Lyons - YouTube Blowing The Blues Away - YouTube |