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[clippedgull]

Can anyone recommend any decent modern saxophonists please?

Recommended albums would be useful as well. Any sort of mood genre is OK.

Thanks.

 

[marlowe]

You're on the wrong forum. Try this one
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/archive/index.php/t-100570.html

 

[clippedgull]

You're on the wrong forum. Try this one
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/archive/index.php/t-100570.html

 

[cloud]

Is David Sanborn modern?

 

[clippedgull]

Is David Sanborn modern?

I'll add him to my list

 

[Machiavelli]

I'm a recent convert and can recommend the following, all of which are noisy:
Shabaka Hutchings -- bands include Sons of Kemet (really inventive jazz), Shabaka Hutchings & The Ancestors (more African influenced), and The Comet is Coming (sax and rave collaboration)
Peter Broetzmann (that 'e' is replaced with an umlaut) -- now in his 70s, ear-splittingly powerful but morphing into beauty too; he collaborates with many key figures in the avant-garde jazz world
Mats Gustafsson -- Broetmann's protege, in a lot of bands, the most interesting being Fire!, Fire! Orchestra and The Thing; similarly intense
Pete Wareham -- long-time member of Polar Bear where he duels on sax with Mark Lockheart; lead member of the brilliant, energy-infused Melt Yourself Down, inspired by Cairo in the late 60s (Shabaka was initially in this band)

 

[cloud]

I know this saxophonist http://www.karensharp.net/albums.htm, I think she's good

 

[Buzzer]

Lisa Simpson

 

[clippedgull]

I'm a recent convert and can recommend the following, all of which are noisy:
Shabaka Hutchings -- bands include Sons of Kemet (really inventive jazz), Shabaka Hutchings & The Ancestors (more African influenced), and The Comet is Coming (sax and rave collaboration)
Peter Broetzmann (that 'e' is replaced with an umlaut) -- now in his 70s, ear-splittingly powerful but morphing into beauty too; he collaborates with many key figures in the avant-garde jazz world
Mats Gustafsson -- Broetmann's protege, in a lot of bands, the most interesting being Fire!, Fire! Orchestra and The Thing; similarly intense
Pete Wareham -- long-time member of Polar Bear where he duels on sax with Mark Lockheart; lead member of the brilliant, energy-infused Melt Yourself Down, inspired by Cairo in the late 60s (Shabaka was initially in this band)

Great thanks..plenty of listening there

I know this saxophonist http://www.karensharp.net/albums.htm, I think she's good

Thanks!

Lisa Simpson

DOH!

 

[Jack Straw]

Tommy McCook of Skatalites fame. This is a great album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRDgVEJKx5c

 

[AmexRuislip]

Candy Dulfer

 

[clippedgull]

Tommy McCook of Skatalites fame. This is a great album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRDgVEJKx5c

Cheers Graeme.. will add to my expanding list

Candy Dulfer

Yes! Lily Was Here, one of my faves

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Off the top of my head, here's a few to get your teeth into!

Jazz
Chris Potter
Ken Vandermark
Joshua Redman
Kamasi Washington
Joe Lovano
Miguel Zenon
Binker Golding (Binker and Moses)
Led Bib
Moon Hooch
Badbadnotgood

Avant garde/experimental
Tim Berne
John Zorn
Colin Stetson
Charles Gayle

 

[clippedgull]

Off the top of my head, here's a few to get your teeth into!

Jazz
Chris Potter
Ken Vandermark
Joshua Redman
Kamasi Washington
Joe Lovano
Miguel Zenon
Binker Golding (Binker and Moses)
Led Bib
Moon Hooch
Badbadnotgood

Avant garde/experimental
Tim Berne
John Zorn
Colin Stetson
Charles Gayle

Thanks very much....

 

[Napier]

Grover Washington Jnr. No longer with us, but one of the greats.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Never been into recorded jazz so my experience may be limited but the best sax player I ever heard was the great Dick Heckstall-Smith....legend !

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

In the soul/reggae/jazz hybrid genre: Yolanda Brown

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Grover Washington Jnr. No longer with us, but one of the greats.

Yes Grover was a great jazz saxophonist in an age of many, saw him live at Albert Hall.
But my personal favourite was Ronnie Laws.
Wilton Felder of Crusaders, David Sanborn, so many to choose from.

 

[OzMike]

Anyone but Kenny G !

 

[Boys 9d]

Candy Dulfer has been mentioned so here are some other favourite ladies who can blow:

Christine Jensen
Tineke Postma
Sophie Alour
Grace Kelly (no not the Princess)
Tia Fuller
Allison Neale
Kaori Kobayashi
many others if you need any more.