Great Saxophone Artists and Albums

While most of the recommendations here are great , they mostly pertain to "jazz".Something a bit different is the work that Jan Garbarek has done with the Hilliard Ensemble.Really different and really quite cool- a glacial sax tone interweaving over choral music from the 16th century.2 albums , both on ECM. Just somethng else to consider.YMMV as alwyas.

I'm a big fan of the record Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins. Hawk's almost full-track solo on Mood Indigo is one of the greatest four minutes of tenor playing ever recorded (in my totally biased opinion), and his horn is prominent throughout the session. Plus you get the DE orchestra still playing about as well as it ever did. It's a Rudy Van Gelder recording, so the piano sounds a little truncated, but on the whole the recording quality is excellent.

Houston Person - Art & Soul, To Etta, etc.

Well recorded:
Joshua Redman, Spirit of the Moment - Great live album, really cooks
Jeff "Tain" Watts, Detained at the Blue Note - Phenomenal with Marcus Strickland and Kenny Garrett

Masterpiece saxophone albums:
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme - One of the greatest in the history of jazz
Sonny Rollins, The Complete Prestige Recordings - A master musician

Honorable mention:
Hank Mobeley, At the Cafe Bohemia, with Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Kenny Dorham
Phil Woods, More Live - A great sax player, a little more laid back, great recording

Houston Person "Soft Lights" and Scott Hamilton "Nocturnes and Serenades". Some of the best tone quality for digital sax that I have ever heard as well as great music.