{"id":6215,"date":"2024-06-26T04:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2024-07-13T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T22:22:12","slug":"76-favorite-saxophone-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/26\/76-favorite-saxophone-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"76 Favorite Saxophone Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is this year’s summer playlist, with the theme being saxophone songs.  It spans a full ten decades, almost a hundred years of recorded music.  It starts off pretty sparse in the 1930’s and 40’s and thins out again from the 1990s’ into the 21st century.  It begins with Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker, who virtually defined modern jazz on the sax.  In the 50’s and into the 60’s it’s dominated by the great jazz players, mainly tenor but a few alto, soprano, and even bari.  In the mid-sixties pop music start taking over, beginning with soul rapidly followed by rock, and alot of great horn section bands appear around this time.  By the mid-seventies into the 80’s there’s lots of different styles and in rock, horn sections largely give way to a single sax player.  By the 90’s rock and pop had largely moved into grunge and electronic styles, so there’s less of a role for the horn.  Still, around the time we see a resurgence of a new generation of jazz that continues into the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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