Favorite Lesser Known Sax Players


Trane, Rollins, Bird, Desmond, Getz, Hawkins and Lester Young are names that are oftened invoked when the subject of great jazz sax players is brought up. Who are some of your favorite, albeit lesser known, sax players and your favorite recording of theirs? As a sax hack, I'll offer the following suggestions to chew on:

Willis 'Gator' Jackson - Call of the Gators
Red Holloway - In the Red
James Moody - Don't Look Back Now
Tina Brooks - True Blue
King Curtis - Night Train
Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge
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George Adams
John Handy
Joe Henderson
Sonny Criss
Eric Dolphy
Byard Lancaster
George Coleman
Junior Cook
James Spaulding
Earl Bostic
Pepper Adams
Michael Brecker
Lou Donaldson
Eddie Harris
Bobby Jones
Harold Land
Illinois Jacquet
Bob Kindred - Try his "Gentle Giant of the Tenor Sax" on Mapleshade.

And did anyone mention Clifford Jordan?
How about:

Paquito D'Rivera
James Carter
Andrew Rathbun
Chris Potter (Dave Holland Quintet)
Mike Murley (Metalwood)
John Gilmore (Sun Ra's sax player), Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman (Art Ensemble of Chicago) are all top notch. For more traditional sax, check out Sonny Criss