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STAN V
Lv 6
STAN V asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicJazz · 1 decade ago

Attention Attention all you jazzers which in your opinion is the greatest live tenor sax solo?

Although my favourites are Coltrane,Ayler,Shepp, i think you will have to go a long way to beat Paul Gonsalves interlude piece on the Ellington Complete At Newport '56 concert in which he played 27 rousing blues choruses................what do you think?

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  • Teaim
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    I like Booker Ervin's playing on the song Portrait of Jenny, from the Randy Weston album called Monterey 1966. It was the first thing I heard Ervin play since the mid 1950's stuff with Mingus. Ervin in the mid 1960's is some of my favorite playing of any music I have heard yet.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Lester Young

    Vito Musso

  • 1 decade ago

    i like coltraine. dont listen to many tenor players, more lke adderley, and parker altos.

    But a ska band named streetlight manifesto has an amazing tenor sax solo in it in thei song We Will Fall Together

  • John J
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    i have to say im digging a good bit of coleman hawkins at the moment,

    but for me, its the official solo for st thomas by Sonny rollins

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I really love "Europa" as played by both Gato Barbieri and Greg Vail.

    Ahhhh, yeahhhhh.........

    Source(s): Retired Percussionist
  • 1 decade ago

    coleman hawkins--body and soul

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