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So many good players already . .
Modern (living??)
Joshua Redman (surprised a bit he's not on the list)
Patrick Bartely
Kendrick Smith
All time:
Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Sonny Rollins
Dexter Gordon
tricky, of course, to boil it down- here's 3 guys I've consistently listened to for decades:
Dexter Gordon
Sonny Stitt
Игорь Бутман ( Igor Butman ):
Johnny Hodges
Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins
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Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Fela Kuti for something different 🙂
Check out Zoot Sims playing Wrap your Troubles in Dreams on soprano sax.
Beautiful!
Hawk, Newk, Wayne.
I am not in any way an expert on Jazz horn players but I once read something in a B.B.King interview that has stuck with me and probably been more of an influence on how I 'think' guitar than anything.
He said he sings a line, riff, phrase or whatever in his head as he plays, and that automatically meant he left gaps for breathing, so he recommended when soloing on guitar to think like a horn player and take a 'breath'. I started listening to horn players in a different way and once I took up B.B's suggestion it has stuck with me ever since. I always found something very annoying about how Eric Clapton (and many others) play that non-stop 'widdly-widdly' filling out five minute solos with a string of repeated high-speed licks that say nothing, and yet the late great Peter Green could say so much more with three notes and a space.
B.B. was right, and even he said Green " was the only one that gave me the cold sweats".
Following B.B's advice I got to listening to horn players as a way to play guitar and that led me to liking......
Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon and especially Ben Webster
Interesting that Coltrane and Parker aren’t ace-ing this thread.
I would go with Coltrane, Gordon and - for his love of Django - a special mention for James Carter.