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Name your favorite sax solo.

My personal favorite is Coleman Hawkins playing over Mood Indigo on Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse). Gotta be one of the best things ever recorded. Melodic, technincal, beautiful... He was awsome even when he was just mailing it in. You can never have too much Hawk!
grimace
jazdoc
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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...
siddh
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Joshua Redman "Live at the Village Vanguard", St. Thomas. Great rendition of a Sonny Rollins original.
orpheus10
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"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.
jazdoc
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+1 on Joshua Redman's tour de force solo on "St. Thomas"
isochronism
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I can't pick an ultimate favorite,... but here is one executed with pure perfection. Album: Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley. Song: "Never Will I Marry". (the rest of the ensemble ain't bad either)
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