This week's category: Top 5 all-time greatest tenor saxophone solos...
1. Joe Henderson - Pfrancing (from the album "So Near, So Far - Musings For Miles")
This solo is indicative of a virtuoso tenor man at the height of his artistry! The way Joe takes a tiny nugget of an idea and develops it, chorus after mind-blowing chorus, is...well...words can't really describe it.
2. Lester Young - Fine And Mellow (from the "Ken Burns Jazz - Billie Holiday" compilation)
It's only 12 measures long - so simple, yet one of the most emotional solos I've ever heard. Lester died very soon after recording it, which only adds to the impact and historic significance of this moment in time.
3. Joe Henderson - Blues On The Corner (from McCoy Tyner's "The Real McCoy")
A perfect example of how high art should reflect life. This solo, from it's initial phrase, is all about pain, anger, frustration - things we feel in our everyday lives. Everytime I hear this solo, a part of me wants to go out and get into a fight [...]
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1. Joe Henderson - Pfrancing (from the album "So Near, So Far - Musings For Miles")
This solo is indicative of a virtuoso tenor man at the height of his artistry! The way Joe takes a tiny nugget of an idea and develops it, chorus after mind-blowing chorus, is...well...words can't really describe it.
2. Lester Young - Fine And Mellow (from the "Ken Burns Jazz - Billie Holiday" compilation)
It's only 12 measures long - so simple, yet one of the most emotional solos I've ever heard. Lester died very soon after recording it, which only adds to the impact and historic significance of this moment in time.
3. Joe Henderson - Blues On The Corner (from McCoy Tyner's "The Real McCoy")
A perfect example of how high art should reflect life. This solo, from it's initial phrase, is all about pain, anger, frustration - things we feel in our everyday lives. Everytime I hear this solo, a part of me wants to go out and get into a fight [...]