Who's your favorite Jazz Saxophonist? #1

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I will combine Poll 1 & 2 and have a showdown between the winners.

I'll keep a separate tally for Kenny G votes

Before you vote other and ask "where's so and so" make sure you've seen both polls

[mac56]

1. Trane

nm

[Blue-Jay]

2. Can't choose.

I love every damn one of them. Also Anthony Braxton.

But, if I HAD to choose, it'd be Parker, Trane, Desmond, & Cannonball, in that order.

(I can fart better than Kenny G can play, BTW)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. I've met Anthony Braxton's son

He's a friend of my fiance

[Blue-Jay]

6. Does he play?

Sometimes the "musical gene" passes down, ala Don Cherry.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. Yes he does

and yes they do

[bif]

3. Trane=God

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. I love that post!

[OneBlueSky]

8. you can visit with God here . . .

http://www.johncoltrane.com/automat/swf/main.htm

[Zomby Woof]

7. saxophOnist

I checked my American Heritage Dictionary, because I knew it looked wrong.


Going with 'Trane.

[OneBlueSky]

9. I went with Coleman Hawkins . . .

mainly because he didn't have any votes yet . . . like Trane and Bird, but Hawkins' more traditional style is more my thing . . . they're all great, though, and I have CDs by every one of them . . .

[Wapsie B]

10. Tenor,

gotta go with Trane or Dexter Gordon.
Alto, Bird and Phil Woods.

[hatrack]

11. Then there's the Church Of John Coltrane

Finally, a church I can belong to!

http://www.fly.co.uk/church.htm

And then what do I find on the web? It CLOSED! BLASPHEMY!!

http://elvispelvis.com/jazzchurch.htm

[ProfessorGAC]

12. I Went With Trane, But. . .

. . .i almost went with Ornette.

Also: Anybody who listens to Kenny G and thinks he is a good jazz sax player should be banned from future polls. Hey Kenny! Circular breathing is a technique that allows continuous lines, not one long note. Kenny's next original musical idea will be his first.
The Professor

[Zomby Woof]

14. great rant!

Agree that Ornette is pretty much a tie. My collection would suck without "The Shape Of Jazz To Come" or "Free Jazz".

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. Or This is Our Music

:toast:

[Blue-Jay]

16. Thanks, GAC!

Ask any saxophonist (or jazz fan, for that matter), and you'll find that he is the absolute worst of the worst. Fuck, *I* can do circular breathing. It's no big deal once you figure it out.

God, I hate Kenny G, that wanker.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. My Kenny G tally is for people to put on my ignore list

Ugh!

[Beefheart]

15. Eric Dolphy?

My other is for him, I guess.

17. I voted Coltrane, Coltrane liked John Gilmore

one of the sax players in the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Check this--@http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/gilmore.html

When the Arkestra relocated to new York in the early '60s, there was little work for the huge vanguard ensemble, so the members took more side-gigs than usual; at this time, Gilmore played on Impulse! Records with McCoy Tyner and Freddie Hubbard, and elsewhere with Elmo Hope, Paul Bley, Pete La Roca, Andrew Hill and Blakey. During one of Gilmore's first New York performances at Birdland, Coltrane ran up to the stage after his solo yelling, "He's got it! Gilmore's got the concept!" By his own admission, Coltrane--who asked for a quickie lesson after the set--was so moved by Gilmore's harmonically ingenious, against-the-grain style that it inspired him to create the groundbreaking "Chasin' The Train."

:)

I'd say that was a recommendation!

[Whitacre D_WI]

18. Pharoah.

I mean, Trane's my favorite. And I love Bird, too.

But when Pharoah is ON (sadly, all too rarely, considering the size of his body of work), ain't nobody blow a horn better.

[FunBobbyMucha]

19. Clearly Kenny G.

That guy's got da mad flava.

[NightTrain]

21. Oh well-a, everybody's heard about the Bird...

Because the Bird, Bird, Bird,
Bird, Bird's the word!

Guess who I voted for? :P

[Waistdeep]

22. Dexter Gordon

I love all of them on the list but I always enjoy remembering the times I've seen Dexter Gordon. Sometimes so drunk he could barely stand --- and then he would start to play like a god.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. Ok - resurrecting this for the evening loungers - what do you folks think?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Ok - between the 2 polls Bird - BIRD- has only 2 votes!!!!!

What is up people?

Bird was the idol of almost everyone on these lists!

31. you put Coltrane on the list

that's why noone's voting for Bird I reckon.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. Saturday DU - care to weigh in?

[RandomKoolzip]

27. For me, Jazz STARTS with Coltrane.....

Hey, Chavez, have you ever read "As Serious As Your Life," by Valerie Wilmer? It's about the post-Coltrane Free Jazz scene and it's fantastic. For me, that's the Jazz I love.

Ayler, Charles Gayle, Frank Lowe, Cecil Taylor, Leroy Jenkins, etc. THESE guys are the shit.....(most pre-Coltrane jazz bores the fecal outta me)


And my fave saxist is Braxton. (Your fiancee knows Braxton's kid?!! Tahnt's so cool. When I come visit you in May, I'm gonna have to bring some of my Braxton vinyl for sampling purposes or to be autographed.....)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

28. Sounds good K-Goulash

I'll check that book.

BTW - you ever heaerd Miles Smiles? It made me think of you.

[RandomKoolzip]

29. There's some Miles I like.....

I like "On the Corner," "In a Silent Way," and "Agharta" a lot. Haven't heard "Miles Smiles," though.

Actually, my favorite Jazz musician is Todd Stiewing.

30. Noticed something about these polls

I'll weigh in.
Granted, you're picking the heavyweights, but I think (if you'll pardon me saying this)that this is slightly mainstream.
I'll make another list and you'll see what I mean.

Roscoe Mitchell
Joseph Jarman
Charlie Rouse
John Gilmore
Marshall Allen
Anthony Braxton
John Zorn
Charles Gayle
David S. Ware
Jemeel Moondoc
James Chance
Sonny Fortune
Steve Goodman
King Curtis
Rocky Morales

Ok, I snuck a couple of rockers in there.
:evilgrin:

[immoderate]

33. Let's take it further...

Gary Bartz
Sal Nistico
Earl Bostic
Gary Windo
Bobby Watson
Paul Gonsalves (if you've heard the Newport '56 album.)
James Moody
Leo Wright
Lennie Neihaus

--IMM

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. Thanks 56 - thats why I do these polls

to learn about musicians I haven't heard of

PS - thanks for the Braxton reference - my Fiance went to school with his kids!

:toast:

[BrotherBuzz]

32. Ben Webster