sax solos

toots · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 4:22 pm

ok seriously

i'm looking for an album or albums that are mainly just a single sad sax, sort of like a sax version of Bill Evans "Alone."

like something you'd hear at 3am in your tiny flat overlooking the metro station, inch-long ash on your cigarette, needle in your arm, in 1962

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 4:29 pm

A Love Supreme?

toots · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 4:41 pm

even more minimal than that. like no drums or piano.

just a heartbroken, despondent saxomaphone

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 5:44 pm

You got me curious about this so I found a Wikipedia page where somebody put together a list of solo sax albums.

Of that list I sought out this one on Spotify:
Lee Konitz - Lone-Lee
http://open.spotify.com/album/122GCwi2DEKRO0wvv4YcDa

1974 not 1962 so maybe not as "cool" as what you're imagining.

toots · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 6:04 pm

that's not bad

reminds me of my dad practicing when i lived with my parents

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 6:13 pm

I knew there had to be some good solo Ornette out there somewhere and found this:

Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - "Unknown Artist"

Some minimal accompaniment comes in toward the end.

The rest of the album (Virgin Beauty) is not him solo, and it sounds terrible, unfortunately.

toots · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 6:14 pm

that's such a great photo to accompany that clip

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 6:14 pm

yeah there's your flat overlooking the metro station

toots · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 6:19 pm

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Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon May 05, 2014 10:40 pm

did you mean

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue May 06, 2014 8:32 am

toots Wrote:

"So often you barely notice..."

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

My nomination for the best sax solo of all time, albeit perhaps not the most technical.

The whole song is great. It's called 'Poontang' for a start and one of the lines goes "tired of talking to tigers, kangaroos and singing a song to a goose; now that I'm out on the loose, gonna get me some pooooontang".

But beside all that it's worth listening to it just for the sax solo at 1.36. Those with fillings in their teeth should proceed with caution.

Best listened to through in ear headphones at maximum volume.

bort · **Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 7:10 pm

my friend from nyc just posted on fb that they saw this happening while stopped at a traffic light.

toots · **Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 8:53 pm

i want to go to there

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 12:49 am

Ornette Coleman provided a truly great sax solo on Joe Henry's "Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation." That song is on the album Scar, which ends with a hidden track of Ornette's extended solo unaccompanied (sorta).

The song:

The bonus track (starts at 7:00):

discostu · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2014 12:41 am

they rule

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