Name your favorite sax solo.

I can not believe no one has mentioned "Gene Ammons". He was a contemporary of Bird and Miles, who he played with at various times; and in my jazz circles he is equally well known.

"Jug" (short for jug head) has blown so many dynamite solo's that I would go crazy trying to pick one, but I will choose "Angel Eyes". The truth is, I vacillate between "Angel Eyes" by him and "Angel Eyes" by Hank Crawford; they both played tenor. Newbies can get an education from these threads. My favorite sax solo changes from one day to the next.

Paul Gonsalves “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” from 'Ellington At Newport' (1956).

32 bar masterpiece that helped relaunch Ellington's career. Liner notes on the back album cover tell the story...

Joshua Redman "Live at the Village Vanguard", St. Thomas. Great rendition of a Sonny Rollins original.

"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" evokes a picture of a despondent man walking down a deserted sidewalk on a deserted street in the black of night; he is looking down, moving in the dejected rhythm of the music. Handy's haunting solo completes this picture.

+1 on Joshua Redman's tour de force solo on "St. Thomas"