The absolute best saxophone players of all time. Vote up the best saxophonists. These musicians, both living and dead, have forever shaped different genres and styles of music with their incredible talent with the saxophone. The saxophone is a reed instrument that is used ...
Over 800 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of Jazz Saxophone Players HOW RANKINGS WORK1 John Coltrane 267 votes Agree or Disagree? Also ranks #1 on The Greatest Saxophonists of All Time Also ranks #1 on The Best Saxophonists in the World Also ranks #1 on The Best ...
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Almost inevitably, rock drummers dominate our 100 best drummers of all time, but some jazz musicians, including, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Shelly Manne and Gene Krupa, have been included, while another important jazz drummer even made it into our Top 10. (Their identity will be revealed later...
While it’s clear that both the trumpet and saxophone have been integral to jazz music’s development, the former instrument has arguably been the more important of the two. That’s because in jazz, all roads lead back to one man –Louis Armstrong. Not only one of the best jazz trumpeter...
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Parker would often pawn his saxophones for money to buy drugs, meaning that he played a whole host of instruments, of varying quality, across his career. Famously, on this occasion he was playing awhite acrylic plastic Grafton alto.
I got news for you, saxophone players play in tune—the saxophones themselves not so much. I’ve never had a horn that you could just set one embouchure and one voicing and play every note in tune without making adjustments. That doesn’t really exist. It’s just the nature of an ...
His vibrato-laden lines, most notably heard with Fletcher Henderson’s big band, influenced a generation of jazz saxophone players. A true innovator, he was also present forthe birth of bebop, playing on sessions with the likes of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach and, even later...