What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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The discussion revolves around sharing links to various songs and artists, highlighting personal favorites and recommendations. Participants mention iconic tracks like "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, emphasizing their appreciation for guitar riffs and vocals. Dream Theater is frequently praised for its musicianship, particularly the drumming and progressive compositions. Other notable mentions include artists like Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Emmanuel, and Mary Black, showcasing a wide range of musical styles. The thread encourages exploration of new music and sharing of lesser-known talents.
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Kevin_Axion said:
Mozart like most composers is either deeply enjoyed or disliked. I very much enjoy his music but there are some songs that I don't.
Good point. But I can't say that there's anything by Mozart that I don't like. Just that his stuff isn't my favorite. This might be due to a predisposition toward other sorts of music that I was exposed to before listening to Mozart. I've heard some of his stuff performed live on piano and it's absolutely wonderful music. Just not my favorite music. There's no accounting for taste, right?
 
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For example Kevin, I would say that I like this stuff more than Mozart (but not necessarily more than, say, Handel, or Neil Young -- in any case, I think one has to admit that this is cool stuff, and fun, as in joyous, to play):
 
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Here's something by a guy, Carl Eichman, that I did a couple of tunes with (not including this one). He's a very gifted and accomplished guitarist, composer and arranger.
 
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Love that freaky banjo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmy113gMds0
 
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lisab said:
Love that freaky banjo.

Me, too, but he's really missing some freaky bongos.
 
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Mean Mary


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX-SeEf2P-o
 
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ThomasT said:
A particularly nice version of Debussy's Claire de Lune.

Absolutely wonderful. :!)

I don’t know if you guys dig jazz?? Anyway, this ballad "Too Young to Go Steady" performed by John Coltrane (recorded in 1962) puts me in the same mode as Claire. Turn down the light, pour a glass of wine, light a candle, smoke if you smoke, and enter the parallel "Coltrane universe"... :wink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07WYPIX8Nuw

I’m sucker for jazz ballads/standards... I just can’t help it... started out as "nuttyheavy metal guitarist", and then it all went down the jazzy hill! :smile:

By chance I bumped into this guy; http://www.podiatrysoftware.com/jazzpiano/" . He uses computer MIDI backing tracks with a real groove. Some might groan "LOUNGE music!", but he’s really good! And it’s also fun if you want to learn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKepagIwljg
 
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DevilsAvocado said:
I don’t know if you guys dig jazz?? Anyway, this ballad "Too Young to Go Steady" performed by John Coltrane (recorded in 1962) puts me in the same mode as Claire. Turn down the light, pour a glass of wine, light a candle, smoke if you smoke, and enter the parallel "Coltrane universe"... :wink:

I’m sucker for jazz ballads/standards... I just can’t help it... started out as "nuttyheavy metal guitarist", and then it all went down the jazzy hill! :smile:

By chance I bumped into this guy; http://www.podiatrysoftware.com/jazzpiano/" . He uses computer MIDI backing tracks with a real groove. Some might groan "LOUNGE music!", but he’s really good! And it’s also fun if you want to learn...
Hi DA, sure I like all kinds of jazz. Great tune by Coltrane. And, yeah, that's the way to listen to good jazz done really well (low light, preferably candle, and some wine) -- the smooth/mellow stuff anyway. So you're a musician, eh? Glad to hear it.

Friedman can play. Maybe I'll use his videos to learn some of the stuff he does.

I found the following at soundclick.com -- the guy, calls himself Gatormon, has a nice fluid style. All his own stuff I think.
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=6529307&q=hi
 
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Dave Brubeck - Strange Meadowlark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HUEiUOCLeI

:!)
 
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ThomasT said:
Hi DA, sure I like all kinds of jazz. Great tune by Coltrane. And, yeah, that's the way to listen to good jazz done really well (low light, preferably candle, and some wine) -- the smooth/mellow stuff anyway. So you're a musician, eh? Glad to hear it.

Friedman can play. Maybe I'll use his videos to learn some of the stuff he does.

I found the following at soundclick.com -- the guy, calls himself Gatormon, has a nice fluid style. All his own stuff I think.
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=6529307&q=hi

Cool! Now I know you love this stuff... :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMN4U-Alqfc

... amazing improvisation ...


P.S.
Me = happy amateur, Keith Jarrett = real musician

PS2
Is Friedman an 'established' musician over there? (I’ve never heard of him before)
 
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lisab said:
Dave Brubeck - Strange Meadowlark
:!)

Cool cat! High five, Take Five! :!)
 
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DevilsAvocado said:
Cool! Now I know you love this stuff... :smile:
I posted some Bill Evans a bunch of pages back.

DevilsAvocado said:
... amazing improvisation ...
Yes it's really hard to solo improvise and be fluid and musically interesting and making somewhat emotionally moving music at the same time.

DevilsAvocado said:
P.S.
Me = happy amateur, Keith Jarrett = real musician
Me too = happy amateur.

DevilsAvocado said:
PS2
Is Friedman an 'established' musician over there? (I’ve never heard of him before)
I have no idea if he's an 'established' musician here. But from the video it's apparent that he can play. When I checked out his website that you linked to a cool tune automatically played. Good stuff. But, no, I've never heard of him before either -- at least I don't think so.

And of course any Dave Brubeck (recently linked to by lisab) is good listening .

But I like that banjo stuff a few posts back at least as much. Let the music (any kind of music played well by accomplished musicians) flow!
 
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Related to "time is what life is made of"

 
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ThomasT said:
I posted some Bill Evans a bunch of pages back.

Great! He’s one of "My Favorite Things"! :!)

ThomasT said:
Yes it's really hard to solo improvise and be fluid and musically interesting and making somewhat emotionally moving music at the same time.

That’s what differ a "happy amateur" from a pro. :wink:

ThomasT said:
But I like that banjo stuff a few posts back at least as much. Let the music (any kind of music played well by accomplished musicians) flow!

Absolutely! My love #2 is blues. Nothing better than a real fat guitar!

Who said Swedes can’t play the blues...?? :bugeye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYqtQxlWYvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN2QQ0I8Wj8&feature=BF&list=ULl9KPro6rETo&index=1

... gives me 'goose skin' ...Same guy and his Fat Guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOPPbnLeIk

(amateur capture = bad mixing :blushing:)
 
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I have seen Bonnie several times in concert - she is a fantastic live performer.

 
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turbo-1 said:
I have seen Bonnie several times in concert - she is a fantastic live performer.

Ohhh lucky you! :cry:

She’s a GREAT guitarist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04r_tlWdRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzDUi_L6MzA

What to say?? "Stairway to Heaven"...
 
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HEY JOE! :smile: :!) :!) :!)
 
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Steely Dan :!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSnL4_IhPHQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wsw3yd8zug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zmX6_ujBN0
 
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I love Steely Dan's stuff. Thanks for reminding me.

You mentioned that Bill Evans is one of "My Favorite Things"! I couldn't find Bill Evans doing that, but here's something else by him:


And here's some different versions of 'My Favorite Things':








And here's Greg Howard doing 'Guitarresque' on the Chapman stick:


And now back to Steely Dan.
 
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Cee Lo Green... "Forget You", only, not that version. Obviously there's no posting it here. :smile:
 
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DevilsAvocado said:
Ohhh lucky you! :cry:

She’s a GREAT guitarist!
My future wife's first live concert was when I took her to see Bonnie. The band came out and struck up a song, and Bonnie held up her hand and the music stopped dead. She addressed the loons in the front row, and told them that she appreciated that that they wanted to dance to her music, but that everybody else in the fieldhouse (everybody sitting on the floor) paid to get in and deserved to be able to see the show without standing for hours. She told them to go to the back of the crowd to dance or sit down. I think 99% of them sat down. Tough lady, and she got my respect. I worked my way through college (in part) from performing at frat parties almost every weekend. If a musician can't make it possible for most of the people in the crowd to enjoy the performance, they are not fit to be called performers.
 
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Hmmm, I think there is a legal radio edit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKxodgpyGec



I'm ashamed to like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw


Now this... I love. Swedes... good meatballs, good music, absurdly attractive women:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN7FTph1S0s

Best Overtone (throat) Singing I've ever heard... the whistling sound is not an instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1AWQ7O10Lg

Cheb Khaled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mIYnwwB__g

Shlomo Artzi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zk_cTSeLUk

One of my all time favs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLdKYRBOEE

Andrey Gubin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp0IsHsvK7o

And of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgvAokoyGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUQMSXLlHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXrzHRSDFDc
 
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What, none of that Serj Tankian I showed you?

I am disappoint.
 
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Char. Limit said:
What, none of that Serj Tankian I showed you?

I am disappoint.

Heh... my friend, how much of it would meet posting guidelines? "Peter Piper picked a bunch of..." heh... no.

Maybe "Chop Suey"? Errr.. no. I'd post a whole lot more if there was profanity exemption for music.
 
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The original... great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oolJ5G5Njxc
(lyrics)
Geordie said:
Impiccherranno Geordie con una corda doro
un privelegio raro
Rub sei cervi nel parco del re
Vendendoli per denaro

Cos lo impiccheranno con una corda doro
un privelegio raro
Rub sei cervi nel parco del re
Vendendoli per denaro

English Version (original lyrics by Fabrizio De Andre')

And...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3FCpNBBmm8&feature=related

Note: the following contains graphic depictions of videogame violence:

Serj Tankian - Empty Walls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASY1PLv-2p8&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQeRG72E3OM&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVkXlxsO8Q

KMFDM - Full Worm Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSFbMZkJJDk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZqWq0ZNjk
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4_mVKI-bl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdbDYahiCQ
 
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@ ThomasT, Nismar & Greg; thanks great stuff! Girls girls girls, what would we do without them! :!):!):!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwTMyjTNBM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqTeB4KS44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERzNIzrEnLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQY7OdQv6n4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YPdzJYJ5ug
 
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turbo-1 said:
My future wife's first live concert was when I took her to see Bonnie. The band came out and struck up a song, and Bonnie held up her hand and the music stopped dead. She addressed the loons in the front row, and told them that she appreciated that that they wanted to dance to her music, but that everybody else in the fieldhouse (everybody sitting on the floor) paid to get in and deserved to be able to see the show without standing for hours. She told them to go to the back of the crowd to dance or sit down. I think 99% of them sat down. Tough lady, and she got my respect. I worked my way through college (in part) from performing at frat parties almost every weekend. If a musician can't make it possible for most of the people in the crowd to enjoy the performance, they are not fit to be called performers.

Tough lady indeed! :!) Thanks for sharing turbo!
 
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I know I posted this one before, some three years ago. But since we have a lot of members now who weren't around then...

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O-LDea7SHY
 

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