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Posted: May 05 2015 at 06:24
Henry Cow (Tim Hodgkinson, Geoff Leigh, Lindsay Cooper); also check out Jimmy Hastings' contributions to Caravan and Hatfield and the North albums (personal favourite: The Rotters Club)
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Posted: May 05 2015 at 13:27
Camel brought in Mel Collins for the Rain Dances album and also A Live Record - both are well worth hearing especially the latter as the saxophone really enhanced some of the older songs.
Joined: February 08 2005
Location: Hants, England
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 03:56
The City to City album by Gerry Rafferty contains, in Baker Street, one of the most famous saxophone solos of all time, played by Raf Ravenscroft. Wiki quotes the saxophonist's intervew on the BBC's One Show, in which he claimed to have been paid £27.50 for his work and the cheque bounced. Rafferty on the other hand was estimated to have earned £80,000 a year from the song, much of which he seems to have spent on self-destruction. Nevertheless, Ravenscroft contributed to Rafferty's follow-up albums, The Night Owl and Snakes and Ladders. He also worked with Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Brand X and many others. Ravenscroft sadly passed away last year at the age of 60.
Joined: June 18 2009
Location: Mexico
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 22:22
Usually very loud and Schizofrenic sax rather annoys me (such as used by King Crimson on Schizoid Man and so... though I have sort of warmed to that song in it's original format... but I still prefer later live versions with the sax replaced by electric guitar). However, for some reason, I really love the way the sax is used on VDGG. Also, as they have been barely mentioned (though perhaps they hardly need to be mentioned), I really love the soft and melodic sax used by Pink Floyd in those few tracks that includes it (with Dick Parry, of course, he IS the sax player for the Floyd).
Joined: April 12 2013
Location: Michigan
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Posted: June 19 2015 at 21:26
^ Ah, Perhaps!Great band with phenomenal sax work!
Ian McDonald added some amazing
coloration with his work on the first Fireballet album “Night on Bald Mountain”.
The uncredited sax player, who
was apparently just recruited from the orchestra, that played on Touching Once
(Is So Hard to Keep) by Renaissance.I
think this was the only sax solo on a Renaissance track, and it worked
amazingly well.
Bo Hansson.Sax was always an integral part of his albums’
sound.
Mel Collins’ solos on Clannad’s
“Macalla” and “Sirius”.
Ian Anderson’s rare sax work on
“A Passion Play” and “WarChild.”
Hoelderlin.Especially on “Clowns and Clouds.”
Ekseption.
Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.
Joined: June 20 2012
Location: Oklahoma
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Posted: June 19 2015 at 22:00
Jade Warrior. Check out especially the album, Released: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wRXbPcShLno. Water Curtain Cave in particular: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PhQfPusr6XY
Joined: July 20 2009
Location: Tucson, AZ USA
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Posted: June 21 2015 at 19:20
Gong's "You" remains one of my favorite prog works featuring the lush tenor sax of Didier Malherbe!
I was fortunate to see the late, great Daevid Allen and Gong on two consecutive nights in a small club in Chicago some years ago! Mike Howlett on bass, Didier Malherbe ("Bloomdido Bad De Grasse") on sax, Stefi Sharpstrings on guitar & synth, Babylon Yoni on space whisper....magnificent show!
Joined: September 22 2005
Location: Wuhan, China
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Posted: June 24 2015 at 09:33
Michael678 wrote:
early King Crimson has something with the saxophone from time to time again if that counts.
Definitely counts! Ian McDonald is the 'man' on the prog sax! Despite the fact that he "sold out" by playing with Foreigner in the late 1970s & early 1980s, he redeemed himself by joining up with Steve Hackett on his 'Tokyo Tapes' tour in 1996. The video of that two-night gig shows McDonald doing great prog sax work even on non-KC pieces. Great stuff...
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