Favorite Sax Solos

[john]

Hey guys, it would be great to gather a list of people’s favorite sax solos, songs riffs, hooks etc. As a recent poster here suggested Baker Street which is not a solo but nevertheless a great hook line that adds a huge part to the song.

I have just made a new post with two personal suggestions here:https://howtoplaysaxophone.org/favorite-saxophone-solos

Check it out and add your own if you have one!

[Rick Wysynski]

Alto Reed. Old Time Rock and Roll. Nine Tonight
Johnny Ferreira. Lady
Boots Randolph. Honky Tonk. Monsterous Sax Hits album…Yakety Sax
King Curtis. Changes, Memphis Soul Stew, Heard It Through the Grapevine
And there is more !

[Pascal Durrens]

Hi all,

The sax solo that enticed me to learn sax was the one of Dick Parry in “Money” in the album “Dark side of the moon” by Pink Floyd. I’va still a long way to go to be able to play it good.

cheers

[john]

Thanks for including one of mine! And as far as King Curtis goes – Anything!
Ditto on Money, it was one of the early ones for me as well, I have worked that one out along with another from the same record “Us and Them”

[John S]

Huey Lewis’s (Johnny Colla) Heart of Rock n Roll, Boots Randolph Yakety Sax and Foreigner’s (Junior Walker) Urgent would be cool to learn. I know Junior Walker’s solo gets into the altissimo range quite a bit so that one is a challenge for me.
-John

[john]

Yes, the altissimo is something most here could, or would like to learn or improve on and a serious lesson I am thinking about working on. The whole thing gets quite involved.

[art dubois]

For some unknown reason I cannot reply on the Blog – Boots is phenomenol doing Yakkety Sax!! Unreal!!!
Some other good ones posted here bring me sweet memories as well….Urgent….Heart of R & R….and I’m sure there will be more!!

[john]

Yes, I have experienced that problem on the blog too, I’m going to contact my tech guy and see what’s up.
thanks
Johnny

[Mike Moran]

Johnny, know it’s a bit specific but any chance of a video lesson on how to play Money or Us and Them? I can play the sax intro on Wearing the Inside Out 🙂 it’s a bit easier than those!

[john]

Ya, I thought of that but couldn’t find my tracks I had for money so then I started to work on Us and Them but didn’t get to finish it. So it’s a definate possiblity when I get a little more time for it.

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