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    Posted: March 13 2010 at 8:04pm
   Ok, I'll admit it, I've never been a fan of the saxophone. A lot of the sax I've heard in songs over the years has been in Rock and the sax seemed too rude to me.  I have a good friend who plays first trumpet in the symphony and he has several books of saxophone jokes, no place for sax in the symphony.  (you can quote me) I will admit that over the years I've come to appreciate some of the jazz guys.  Blues sax, on the other hand seems to fit the music, I like it.  Here's the problem, their are good players and some who need to toss the horn in the river.  Harmonica content:  I think I'd like to learn some sax riffs, especially in blues. Who and what are good songs to listen to? 

   Totally off the subject, I was at a wedding today, I've known the groom since he was born, one of my sons' best friends.  This kid has a full scholarship to play sax at one of the best music schools in the country.  He is studying under the great jazz legend David Baker. I was chit-chatting with Baker and he was telling me how much he enjoyed the wedding.  I commented that I was shocked that there was no sax player in the band playing during the ceremony.  He cracked up!
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"in Rock and the sax seemed too rude to me."  - (rbeetsme)''

  that means the guy did his job.

"I think I'd like to learn some sax riffs, especially in blues. Who and what are good songs to listen to? "
- JUKE  (Little Walter)  it is all stolen sax riffs

or try Msarges favorite song in the world... "Harlem Nocturne"

here are the players the players like in blues     <<<<<click it
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http://philbrodieband.com/muso_solos_saxophonists.htm

about half the licks we use now floated over from the sax
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Beets, if you read music,, just get some blues sax books and steal the riffs.. try jamey aebersold
<<<,here is just one of hundreds of books he offers

a wider selection;playable on all instruments ;

here is a kid playing out of an Aebersold book   this is of course an alto sax.. and just a student level horn,, I think the kid is pretty darn good  , which is to say 10 times better than 1/2fast

here is the famous song Tenor Madness.. this guy is playing along with an Aebersold backing track

this may be what you mean by rude ?

 Sonny Rollins ...same song, different approach and way mellower tone

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I'm a blues man. I am a prisoner of hope.
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Originally posted by 1/2fast-harp



or try Msarges favorite song in the world... "Harlem Nocturne"



That's my favorite song in world on the sax.
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All I know is, if I could afford one I'd be messin' with it everyday!!!
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"All I know is, if I could afford one I'd be messin' with it everyday!!!"

Isn't that a line from an old Mae West movie?
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One guy you should give a definite listen to is Louis Jordan, who was in his day, the single biggest black music star of his time and a sax player, and he has influenced many musicians from BB King to Little Walter (and he was a huge influence on him). I'd also add Joe Houston into the mix, and basically all the guys from the Jump blues school and you'd be shocked to where many of the harp licks came from. LW basically played harp like a sax because he wanted to play one but could afford to buy one.
 
Harp players are often intiidated by sax players, especially if the harp player himself is not most musically together. I loved working with them as part of the horn section and trading stuff off and whenever I get together with my friend Sax Gordon (Gordon Beadle), we have a blast doing that stuff, and he told me he took things from harp players, and now that's coming full circle.
 
Listen to more horn stuff and it'll open your playing big time and too many players are guilty of doing nothing but listening to harp players only and too often they get stuck in a rut from that attitude.
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Originally posted by Phil harmonica

Beets, if you read music,, just get some blues sax books and steal the riffs.. try jamey aebersold
<<<,here is just one of hundreds of books he offers

a wider selection;playable on all instruments ;

here is a kid playing out of an Aebersold book   this is of course an alto sax.. and just a student level horn,, I think the kid is pretty darn good  , which is to say 10 times better than 1/2fast

here is the famous song Tenor Madness.. this guy is playing along with an Aebersold backing track

this may be what you mean by rude ?

 Sonny Rollins ...same song, different approach and way mellower tone
that kid has some very nice tone...
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I seem to remember a while back in a discussion about the sax being rated the most sexy instrument.
As for players, Roland Kirk was quite a player. He would play two saxes at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7BOYvX8ug&feature=related
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