Some great little--known sax players

saxmaniac · Some great little--known sax players

Here's list of some great little known sax players that you should listen to if you ever get the chance:

Perico Sambeat
Jeff Coffin
Lenny Pickett
Jacques Johnson
Mindy Abare

I'll post of some more when I can think of them

CMelodyMan

I'd like to add Charlie Rouse, a great tenor player. He was so painfully under rated. Crying or Very sad

Barney Willen was a great player, too.

Michael Bryant

I've heard Lenny Pickett. He is awsome, he's the lead sax player of the Saturday Night Live band (though I'm sure you already knew that). He plays a lot of high altissimo stuff.

odsum25

For an up and comer, look at Rudresh Mahanthappa. And I second Charlie Rouse.

Louis Scuderi

Charlie Rouse- Oh Baby!

Tina Brooks
Johnny Griffin
Joe Henderson
Hank Mobley
Sonny Stitt (not TOO underrated, but lived Bird's shadow for no real reason)
Pepper Adams
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Russ

Bob Franceschini
Bobby Porcelli

darby dylan

all the ones Louis Scuderi mentioned are quiet wellnone but sufferd because of john coltrane and sonny rollins

furtherdefinitions

I think Tab Smith and Pete Brown were buried treasures. Tab Smith had a strong Johnny Hodges influenced sound, and he played a lot of the early R&B stuff of the early 50's. Pete Brown was the model for Paul Desmond's sound, and it was known that Paul Desmond could accurately play all of Pete Brown's solos.

FoulShooter101

Erv Shawacker

OldEyes

Steve Lacy.