Required Listening; Tenor

[tjontheroad]

Last of the series. Unless ya'll think we need a sopranino, bass and/or a C melody thread.

Required Listening; Tenor
Sonny Rollins,Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano, Lester Young, James Carter, King Curtis, Junior Walker, Red Prysock, Josh Redman, Booker Ervin, Johnny Griffin, Lew Tebackin, Benny Golson, Frank Wess, Tim Price, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Tim Warfield, Ike Quebec, Illinois Jacquet, Dewey Redman, Stanley Turrentine, Lenny Pickett. Houston Person


Keep on listening. It's as important as playing.

Enjoy

[CircaRevival]

John Coltrane
Sonny Stitt
Don Byas
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

[Gange]

Howabout Gary Thomas, Eric Alexander, Fathead Newman and Junior Cook?

From this side of the pond you can add
Jonas Kullhammar
Joakim Milder
Krister Andersson
Karl-Martin Almqvist
Magnus Lindgren
Jerker Lindström
Lennart Åberg
Berndt Rosengren
Jesper Thilo

[BKauth]

James Houlik
John Moore
Bruce Weinberger

[Blackwolf42]

Nobody said Gene Ammons?

[CircaRevival]

Jerry Bergonzi
Jerry Coker - yes, he does play a mean tenor

[Gange]

Leo van Oostrom plays great on his C-melody. He has an album made with all Rudy Wideoft music, that is very nice.

[km]

ben webster; stan getz - got to be there

km

[Martinman]

Boots Randolph (for a completely different look at sax)
Grover Washington Jr.
Yusef Lateef

btw TJ, you listed King Curtis twice.

[zach ferguson]

branford marsalis
jimmy forrest
victor goines

[sycc]

Allen Eager's Tenor sax playing on Mulligan plays Mulligan is superb. Beautiful warm sound. Good improvising too!!!!!

[baylistenor]

Allen Eager's Tenor sax playing on Mulligan plays Mulligan is superb. Beautiful warm sound. Good improvising too!!!!!

And on Tony Fruscellas Atlantic album too!
Once saw him live in Manchester.

[ssleb]

Bill Clinton (?)

:D

[tjontheroad]

btw TJ, you listed King Curtis twice.

Thanks... post edited

[The A Train]

He's THAT damned good!

[Merlin]

Paul Gonsalves

[JimmyForrestWannaB]

No surprise from me, Jimmy Forrest an overlooked giant. For starters take a listen to his recording of Bolo Blues on Out of the Forrest Album. Master of technique tone and melody.

[tjontheroad]

He's THAT damned good!

You mean King or Bill?

[brucemacdonald]

My personal favourites:

Sonny Rollins
Joe Henderson
Wayne Shorter
Michael Brecker
Tony Coe
Stan Sulzmann



And of course the masters:

John Coltrane
Coleman Hawkins
Lester Young

[CircaRevival]

Jimmy Heath
Tina Brooks

Both underrated greats.

[esimpson252]

Listen to me and learn what not to do!

[Mactenor]

Marcus Strickland
Richie Kamuca
Eric Marienthal
Jimmy Giuffre
Warne Marsh
Zoot Sims
Bud Freeman
Sal Nistico
Georgie Auld
David Murray
Archie Shepp

[superbaguy]

George Coleman!

[J.Max]

Classical:
James Houlik
Steven Mauk
Eugene Rousseau

Jazz:
Coleman Hawkins
Lester Young
John Coltrane
Michael Brecker
Stan Getz
Wayne Shorter
Joe Handerson
Bob Mintzer
Jerry Bergonzi
Sonny Rollins
Pete Christlieb
Dave Liebman
Ben Webster
Archie Shepp
Zoot Sims
Ernie Watts
Plas Johnson

(There are more under jazz, but I'm too tired to remember all of them...)

Rock/Soul:
Junior Walker
Lenny Pickett
King Curtis
Michael Brecker (again.)
Illinois Jacquet
Tom Scott
Lou Marini Jr.

[Rahspeak]

most of my favorites have been named, but one of my top 5 or 10 that hasn't....and I think EVERY jazz tenor player should be able to identify this player in two notes...CLIFFORD JORDAN.

[Dr G]

Jazz:
Wayne Shorter
Joe Henderson
Bob Mintzer
Jerry Bergonzi
Sonny Rollins

(There are more under jazz, but I'm too tired to remember all of them...)


Interesting to me that you got all my favorites in one cluster. The only one missing is Rich Perry.

[J.Max]

Interesting to me that you got all my favorites in one cluster. The only one missing is Rich Perry.


I don't know why, but I always think of tenor players in pairs: Lester Young/Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins/John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter/Joe Henderson, etc. That's why they came out that way...

[madgrocer]

Couple other names I don't think have seen yet..
Jeff Coffin, John Ellis, Skerik, Fred Lipsius (Alto or Tenor), Andy Snitzer, Rick Margitza....and how could one forget Bob Berg!!
Man.. there are just so many!!!!!!

[SaxyAcoustician]

The only one missing is Rich Perry.
Rich Perry...incredible player. :)

[Al Stevens]

Harry Allen
Scott Hamilton
Al Cohn
Eddie Miller
Harold Land

[RCNELSON]

How about Don Menza, Pat LaBarbera and Steve Marcus from the Buddy Rich Band of various eras.

[JPSaxMan]

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[Thomas]

well what we have here again is everybody's list of their favorite tenor players, in JMAX case just everybody he could think of til he got tired. There are probably a half dozen or so of all these "derivative" players that are truely "Required Listening". To be worth listening to, required listening should demonstrate new and innovative technique and style and unique creative improvisations and fresh approach to a style/genre of music.
Yes I enjoy the playing of many of the players listed but I don't think that most of them have contributed much except for entertainment and maybe a slick lick or 2.
My list;
Webster, Hawkins, Rollins, Coltrane, Shorter, Leibman, Gabarek, Sullivan

it's much more important what you play than how you play it-obviously just about anybody can play the horn.

[AltoRedux]

George Garzone.


Tobias Delius from the Netherlands.

Saw him with Joost Buis and his band 'Astronotes' at the Ottawa festival. To my ear he comes out of the Webster, Ammons, Person, lineage for sound. I think his lines sound like he has a slightly hammered Marini weilding Dean Martin trapped inside his horn.

Hard to find his records on this side of the pond.

[Angel]

In my opinion, nobody is playing better tenor than the following people today:

James Houlik - CDs "American Saxophone", "Eric Ewazen Concerto", "Tenor Tapestry", "Wings of Song"

Stephen Pollock - CD "So Near, So Far"

Arno Bornkamp - CD "Heartbreakers"

Simone Otto - CD "Hard too Hard"

Jean-Michel Goury - CD "Lifting"

John Moore - any live recording from his recitals at the Cardinal Workshop. I was extremely impressed with him in his recital that I attended last year.

Angel

[eddierich]

Charles Lloyd

[lnauman]

Looks like all the great jazz players were mentioned, but how about more great Blues players??

Some of my favorites (that immediately come to mind, which I didn't see in this thread) are:

A.C. Reed, Eddie Shaw, Johnny Almond, and Dick Heckstall Smith

[edtheshred]

Tubby Hayes-Mexican Green
Stanley Turrentine-Sugar
Stan Sulzman-Jigsaw

[BarrySachs]

My personal favourites:

Sonny Rollins
Joe Henderson
Wayne Shorter
Michael Brecker
Tony Coe
Stan Sulzmann



And of course the masters:

John Coltrane
Coleman Hawkins
Lester Young


What? No Tubby Hayes?

[BarrySachs]

Did anyone mention Billy Mitchell, Budd Johnson, Brew Moore,
Charlie Rouse, Georgie Auld, Teddy Edwards, Bobby Jaspar, Billy Root,
"Big Nick" Nicholas, Buddy Tate, Carmen Leggio, Herschel Evans, Chu Berry, Tina & Bubba Brooks, Bill Barron, James Moody, Al Sears,
Harold Ashby, Kenny Hing, Noel Jewkes
(obscure), Bill Easley, Charlie Ventura, Sal Nistico, Jerome Richardson?

[64sax]

> "Last of the series. Unless ya'll think we need a sopranino, bass and/or a C melody thread."

IMO, at least a C-melody tenor thread would be beneficial.

[tjontheroad]

Done!
http://www.saxontheweb.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=366655#post366655

[64sax]

:D