[Music] Great Songs with a Saxophone

Could do a whole thread on this guy. If you ever get the chance to catch Too Many Zooz live very worth it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIHFk-oPQrE

 

Punk Music + Saxophone = Operation Ivy (well there were others like Less Than Jake and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones but Op Ivy was the best).

 

A few off the beaten path ones:

The great Maceo Parker on sax. They let him loose at about 3:13.


Sting on the sax.

 

Sax was big in early, early proto-rock. I can imagine another universe where Eddie Van Halen is knows for his blistering electric sax tapping technique:

 

Fun Fact: he also recorded with Color Me Badd

 

I’m assuming I can’t use John Coltrane in this thread…

Outside of traditional jazz, my favorite 80s pop song that features a saxophone is Working Hour by Tears for Fears

 

Do full horn sections that include a sax count?

 

You beat me to all these.

The end of Bowie's "Changes."

 

I think we've all purposefully left out jazz/blues/funk, right?

It would turn into a 5000 page thread otherwise.

 

That's your favorite 80's pop song? I knew you loved the band but that's a strong move.

 

Favorite 80s pop song that features a sax

My favorite 80s pop songs are Every Little Thing She Does is Magic and Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

 

It was the dancing at NASA that sealed it, right?

 

The great Bobby Keys live with the Stones in 1972, Sweet Virginia:

 

I kept out Mighty Mighty Bosstones and some other third wave Ska because they have sac but the sax isn’t featured as it’s part of the overall horn section. For a lot of ska the Trombone is more featured than the sax.

 

BEAUTIFUL playing by the great Sonny Rollins on the outro of this one: