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Friday Fun Thread for January 17, 2025

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The other day I was thinking why 80s music was so much better than modern music and then it hit me: It's the saxophone solos!

What are some of your favorite songs with epic sax solos?

I'll start with Girl Meets Boy - Waiting For A Star To Fall (solo at 3:07) and Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (solo first at 0:24 and then repeats at other times).

Edit: No need to limit suggestions to the 80s. Epic sax is epic sax!

This is a very recent one, but Louis Cole - Life. He's one of my favourite modern jazz fusion artists, and the sax solo towards the second half of the song is absolutely tremendous. The underlying chord progression moves very quickly and isn't a particularly easy pattern to improvise over, yet the sax player almost seems to glide around all these constant key changes. Another great, albeit discordant, version of this from the same album is Bitches.

Oh, also, here's one actually from the 80s - JAGATARA's album The Naked King has some killer sax solos on it. Some good examples from there are the songs Hadaka No Osama (the sax solo in this one goes on forever, just wait for it) and Misaki De Matsuwa.

Also much of what Colin Stetson makes is achieved only with saxophone, so it's technically 100% sax solo, though his output is quite ritualistic, soundtracky and meditative and almost certainly not what you're looking for. It is beautiful music though; it's almost religious in quality.

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