Favourite saxophone solos

[RoeDent]

The inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, was born 200 years ago today on November 6, 1814. Since then it's been used in a huge variety of music, from classical to jazz and rock.

What are your favourite saxophone solos (in any genre)?

[Kotowboy]

Is Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street too obvious ?

[Zydar]

Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (I'll add the song Born To Run to the list as well).

[lucky7]

I love the sax in popular songs like The Power of Love (Hewey Lewis), Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel) but my fave is
I don't believe anymore by Icehouse.

There are heaps more, these just came to mind straight away.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

I love the instrument but can't really say what's my favourite although this being DTF i'll have to say Through Her Eyes alt. version is pure ear candy.

Btw the Saxtuba needs to be a thing again:

[wolfking]

Tears for Fears - The Working Hour
The Faceless - Deconsecrate

[PixelDream]

Pink Floyd's songs with sax.

And a youtube video called 'Miles Davis last performance'. Look it up, it's a fusion jam with an incredible saxophone solo by Kenny Garrett.

[masterthes]

Us and Them
Baker Street
Jungleland

[Evermind]

Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick comes to mind.

Pink Floyd's songs with sax.

This too.

[Zydar]

Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick comes to mind.

Oh yes!

[Sycsa]

My choice is an obvious one too, the sax solo at the end of The Logical Song. When it kicks in, I always get chills. It's my favorite one by far. Supetramp had many great sax moments, so did Colosseum, Van Der Graaf Generator and even Jethro Tull.

Also, The Dance of Eternity epic sax guy. Love that he jumps the octave @1:22, like DT did on Budokan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_57e0mUcAE

[Kwyjibo]

Kenny G's solos

Foreigner - Urgent was always one of my favorites but there are many others out there

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Kenny G's solos

FTFM

Kenny G can serenade me in bed any day of the week!

Edit: With his instrument!!

[Zydar]

[T-ski]

this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas6akz1jWU

[Fluffy Lothario]

Some of the first to come to mind:

Charles Mingus - Moanin'. Particularly the version by Mingus Big Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY

Dexter Gordon - I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lI-IqSxCHo

Coltrane - pick a track on Kind of Blue

Dave Matthews Band - Bartender (Lillywhite Sessions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRlyOokh6k

or the solo on this version of Exodus (starts at about 3 mins): https://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Exodus+w+David+Ryan+Harris+Meadow+Brook+Music+Festival+MI+Aug+23+1995/2XUORc?src=5

[Jaq]

Kenny G's solos

Foreigner - Urgent was always one of my favorites but there are many others out there

Urgent's solo is bad ass. 

[T-ski]

Alan Parsons Project "Don't Answer Me"... https://youtu.be/JLvFbBR4XOg?t=2m26s

Hall & Oates "Maneater"... https://youtu.be/yRYFKcMa_Ek?t=2m40s

Glenn Frey "You Belong to the City"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ueaD22hg8

The 80's was filled with great rock/pop songs with the sweet sounds of the saxophone.

[Sacul]

Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick comes to mind.

Pink Floyd's songs with sax.

This too.

Oh yeah.

I also like the sax on DT's Another Day, and on the alternate mix of Through Her Eyes.

[TioJorge]

I'm actually not entirely sure if it's a saxophone, but it sounds like it...and even if it isn't, it's a prominent horn and I love the use of it.

Porcupine Tree's Don't Hate Me, the ending saxophone solo gets me every time and the last few notes, especially that last lingering one, really hits me hard. It's beautiful stuff and it's pretty subtle, but prominent enough to be emotionally effective. That's really all I can think of right now but it's by far and away my most adored horn solo.

I should note that in some versions (live or recorded/demo) there's just the flute solo, but in other versions, and I believe in the official record version, there's also a (again, I THINK) sax solo. The flute part is also awesome but the sax really adds the sex.

[Big Hath]

let me introduce you to Mr. Lenny Pickett from Tower of Power

Knock Yourself Out (from Live And In Living Color) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ao7AEsc0g   solo starts at about 1:40, and keeps going . . .

Squib Cakes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJH0x1CTho  solo starts about 3:10

Real Deal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbR3QbpKhGg  solo starts about 1:50

playing on Little Feet's Mercenary Territory (live version) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX1m0H75HE8  solo starts about 2:45 (don't have any dogs around for those altissimo notes at the end)


Cannonball Adderley - Autumn Leaves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u37RF5xKNq8

Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbaGDDbpcQ4

[emtee]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is #1 and very close is TesseracT's latest. There are 2 stunning solo spots on that album.

[Lucidity]

Basically any solo Paul Desmond plays on Time Out. And the solo around 3:00 in this Snarky Puppy song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qo1NFwMhBA

[PixelDream]

'Outlier' is such a cool track.

[lonestar]

Fanboy moment- the solo at the end of IQ's Capricorn

[El Barto]

While there are probably 1000 different renditions, Steve Marcus's solos in Channel One Suite (Buddy Rich) always made me smile. Builds from a nice, mellow groove into manic mayhem.

[Lucidity]

'Outlier' is such a cool track.

It took me a very long time to figure out how to groove to the bassline under the solo.

[rumborak]

I love the instrument but can't really say what's my favourite although this being DTF i'll have to say Through Her Eyes alt. version is pure ear candy.

Btw the Saxtuba needs to be a thing again:

Is there a difference between the Saxtuba and the Susaphone?

[RoeDent]

Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick comes to mind.

Oh yes!

Oh yes yes! Hearing this song made me want to buy Brothers in Arms, which I did earlier this year.

Fanboy moment- the solo at the end of IQ's Capricorn

Newbie IQ fanboy here. Will definitely check that out!

Porcupine Tree's Don't Hate Me, the ending saxophone solo gets me every time and the last few notes, especially that last lingering one, really hits me hard. It's beautiful stuff and it's pretty subtle, but prominent enough to be emotionally effective. That's really all I can think of right now but it's by far and away my most adored horn solo.

There's a saxophone solo in the middle of Don't Hate Me. The end solo (at least on Stupid Dream) is a guitar solo.

[Obfuscation]

Not exactly a solo but its all saxophone.

Colin Stetson - Judges:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9YJM2GCvk8

[Stadler]

Us and Them
Baker Street
Jungleland

Done. 

I'm not the hugest sax fan in the word (the big brassy sound is more annoying than sexy to me) but these songs are killer. 

[Mebert78]

Tesseract - "Of Reality: Calabi-Yau" (2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMmr3xOF74

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

I love the instrument but can't really say what's my favourite although this being DTF i'll have to say Through Her Eyes alt. version is pure ear candy.

Btw the Saxtuba needs to be a thing again:

Is there a difference between the Saxtuba and the Susaphone?

No idea to be honest but I would assume the sound would be more like the sax while the Sousa have a more "clean" tuba sound. The mouthpiece on the Saxtuba seems to be the same and it also has three cylinders. It kind of ceased to exist ~100 years ago though.

[chaossystem]

Dick Parry-Money (Pink Floyd)

Phil Kenzie-Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)

Jay Beckenstein-Another Day (Dream Theater)

Alto reed-Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Bob Seger)

Cannato Alto-It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Billy Joel)

[KevShmev]

Is Baker Street really a solo?  I always thought of it as more of a lead, especially since its the main melody of the song and never really veers from it.