Top 10 Hardest Saxophone Songs

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  Год назад +11

    What’s your favorite saxophone song? Let us know in the comments!
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    • @redroseabc5099
      @redroseabc5099 Год назад

      I have 3 favorites, actually: Baby G (Kenny G), All I Need (Michael Paulo), and Lily Was Here (Candy Daulfer)! 🎷😉

    • @henryjrboybandola3475
      @henryjrboybandola3475 Год назад

      3:21 “Deacon blues" by Steely Dan (1977)

  • @DainL.Schult
    @DainL.Schult Год назад +1

    What? No Tower of Power? 55 years later and they're still being dissed... amazing...

  • @9MRSaxman
    @9MRSaxman Год назад +26

    #2 Hat and Beard, that's not a Sax. That is a Bass Clarinet.

    • @adalyman773
      @adalyman773 Год назад +4

      I know! I was laughing so hard.

  • @AndersonTenecela
    @AndersonTenecela Год назад +15

    And this is why Jazz is one of my top 3 favorite music genres(alongside orchestra and rock)

  • @bailzzzzzz
    @bailzzzzzz Год назад +13

    For 'hard' sax playing, eg technical but still melodic and musical - you really can't exclude cannonball adderley. With an honourable mention for Chris Potter as the best contemporary living player in this particular context

  • @The100igetmoney
    @The100igetmoney Год назад +4

    Bro I wish they spoke with a Sax player before recording this because wtf😂 Man hyped up Joe Henderson then shows us a part of Curtis Fuller’s solo🤦🏾‍♂️

  • @joblack1838
    @joblack1838 Год назад +7

    You lose all credibility for having Kenny G on this list

    • @0xBenR
      @0xBenR Год назад +1

      John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Kenny G...

  • @jesserussell7242
    @jesserussell7242 Год назад +1

    I also love up there in orbit by Earl Bostic along with hand clapping by red price stock and also flying home by Joel Houston.

  • @johncarroll2160
    @johncarroll2160 Год назад +7

    #2 is a bass clarinet.

    • @Jeremiah_Rivers76
      @Jeremiah_Rivers76 Год назад +1

      At first glance, yes. If you look closer, you’ll see a bass clarinet next to the saxophone he’s playing.

    • @gregorydanielscpa
      @gregorydanielscpa Год назад

      Dolphin plays the bass clarinet on the track. Yes, in the still photo he’s got a sax up to his mouth but that’s a bass clarinet tune.

  • @jahanas22
    @jahanas22 Год назад +4

    Great choices. I love the sax. I added some new songs to my playlists.

  • @floaty10
    @floaty10 Год назад +4

    Kenny G on a hardest sax song list. Priceless 😂. Try the two Sonnys on Eternal Triangle, Earl Bostic Up there in orbit or just about anything with Michael Brecker or Joshua Redman.

    • @jimsullivan3219
      @jimsullivan3219 6 дней назад

      Glad you mentioned Bostic and specifically "Up There in Orbit". No one and I mean no one on this list could have covered that song.

  • @ragingoracle6239
    @ragingoracle6239 Год назад +2

    Anthropology!!!! Thats the gate for the up an comers!!!

  • @vanessaalineschunke7502
    @vanessaalineschunke7502 Год назад +2

    Not the hardest, but the most iconic for me is Tim Capello's "I Still Believe"

  • @gj8683
    @gj8683 Год назад +6

    Why are you showing and playing Freddie Hubbard (with all due respect to him, of course) when the segment is supposed to be about Joe Henderson? Can you not tell the difference between a saxophone and a trumpet?

    • @boy_ka84
      @boy_ka84 Год назад

      Just about to say that myself bro. As of late, WatchMojo has been posting and giving us viewers a wrong and inaccurate info lately on their video.

    • @gj8683
      @gj8683 Год назад +1

      @@boy_ka84 I also have to say that while Kenny G was very good at what he did, and I wouldn't mind him getting an honorable mention, Michael Brecker should have been recognized. I don't know which of his solos was the hardest, but "Peep" is one of his standouts. Just listening to that is a workout.

  • @joeycrooks6217
    @joeycrooks6217 Год назад +2

    Colin Stetson- every song he has ever made.

  • @heroisvillain
    @heroisvillain Год назад +4

    That's not a saxophone on Hat and Beard. It's a bass clarinet lol.

    • @beatriztabbutt8370
      @beatriztabbutt8370 Год назад

      Was checking the comments to see if anyone mentioned this, but yup not a sax

  • @greydecaire8
    @greydecaire8 Год назад +4

    Just FYI, Dolphy plays bass clarinet on "Hat and Beard", not alto saxophone

    • @bradlinder603
      @bradlinder603 Год назад +1

      it's an alto clarinet

    • @greydecaire8
      @greydecaire8 Год назад

      @@bradlinder603 Duh, and Tony Williams plays soprano drums

  • @afwagner
    @afwagner Год назад +1

    12:10 Showing a bass clarinet and hearing a trumpet.

  • @henryjrboybandola3475
    @henryjrboybandola3475 Год назад

    I like saxophone songs 👍🎷🎼🎵🎶
    Especially 3:21 “Deacon blues" by Steely Dan (1977)

  • @nathannickelson4353
    @nathannickelson4353 Год назад +1

    I'd have found a way to put Lenny Pickett's Knock Yourself Out solo from the Tower of Power album Live and in Living Color. It's got the funk, false fingering notes, and I think a bit of circular breathing too. That's a monster sax solo.

  • @afwagner
    @afwagner Год назад +1

    3:00 That’s not a saxophone soloing.

  • @ragingoracle6239
    @ragingoracle6239 Год назад +3

    THAT looks like a bass Clarinet lol.. and sounds like one.. It probably is a Bass Clarinet.

  • @jesserussell7242
    @jesserussell7242 Год назад

    my favorite hardest saxophone song I love take the a train by James Carter and his quartet off of the album called Jurassic classics also only it was another one I just love how wild and crazy he gets on that saxophone I love the saxophone and I love jazz. and there should be a fuller version of take the a train on RUclips with that album in mind with such great songs and James Carter Hass to be one of the greatest along with Peter Brotzman or not Korman Eric Dolphy Sam rivers among so many great sock solos

  • @athenajadegossett385
    @athenajadegossett385 Год назад +4

    Eric Dolphy played Bass clarinet on Hat and Beard, not sax!

  • @redroseabc5099
    @redroseabc5099 Год назад +2

    I ❤ the saxophone! 🎷

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад

    Thanks for these videos🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

  • @tombombara
    @tombombara Год назад +2

    While I appreciate the effort, this is a big miss for me. Hat and Beard features Dolphy on Bass Clarinet, and there is no saxophone in the original version whatsoever.

  • @ChrisM-fz6xx
    @ChrisM-fz6xx Год назад +1

    Clarence Clemons , Saxophonist in the E Street Band . RIP . Sax in Pink Floyd 's Masterpiece , Us and Them , from Dark Side of the Moon .

  • @fatneek5007
    @fatneek5007 Год назад +1

    No Fuzzy Bird Suite!?😭

  • @charlescdt6509
    @charlescdt6509 Год назад +2

    No Candy Dulfer? "Lily Was Here" should have at least been 10.

  • @leobacelli3459
    @leobacelli3459 Год назад +6

    To be honest, I was expecting you were gonna mention baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, because that is a saxophone song too you know

    • @DynamixWarePro
      @DynamixWarePro Год назад +1

      The saxophone part in Baker Street is easy enough to learn and play. I have been playing saxophones for 5 years and it was one of the first tunes I learned to play well. Raphael Ravenscroft actually played his saxophone a bit flat as he wasn't in tune when playing it.

  • @stone1andonly
    @stone1andonly Год назад +9

    It's a pity that you didn't give Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty even an honorable mention - that sax piece is iconic in the annals of rock music, and I'm willing to bet influenced a lot of kids of that time to pick up the saxophone themselves.

    • @jaedancurcio1545
      @jaedancurcio1545 Год назад +4

      just....no. influential, sure. Hard? ehhhhh

    • @The100igetmoney
      @The100igetmoney Год назад

      It says hard in the title. So not things that you’ll find middle schoolers across the country play as a joke.

    • @gregorydanielscpa
      @gregorydanielscpa Год назад

      Great solo, but not difficult to play.

  • @ericdano
    @ericdano Год назад

    Hat and Beard is a bass clarinet though right? I'll have to dig out the album.....

  • @Eheads89-02
    @Eheads89-02 Год назад

    Saxophone is the sexiest sound penetrated my ears 😂

  • @ahmadramz6263
    @ahmadramz6263 Год назад

    Bishtar o bishtar_ hasan shamaizadeh

  • @danielknab8383
    @danielknab8383 9 месяцев назад

    Ian McDonald sax during 21st Century Schizoid Man

  • @AvantGothSparni
    @AvantGothSparni Год назад +1

    bruh Hat and Beard has no saxophone on it

  • @cameliongrim183
    @cameliongrim183 Год назад

    Damnit not again, why everytime something like in this list feels like someone's gonna say that this is a jojo reference

  • @QueenNetExpert
    @QueenNetExpert Год назад +1

    Herb alpert

  • @ppheard1254
    @ppheard1254 Год назад

    I Litterally was watching Fa.ily Matters just before watching this

  • @MsUltrafox
    @MsUltrafox Год назад

    This list is for Lisa Simpson a joy.

  • @__hjg__2123
    @__hjg__2123 7 месяцев назад

    Coltrane

  • @MichaelAdjogbe
    @MichaelAdjogbe 4 месяца назад

    How doesn't Nigeria's Fela kuti make the list🤨?

  • @solosforthesavior
    @solosforthesavior Год назад

    I’m guessing yakety sax is #1, also as a “professional” sax player, I approve this video

  • @lfgubrs
    @lfgubrs Год назад

    Yakety Sax anyone?

  • @leVraiQuasar
    @leVraiQuasar Год назад

    _ YOU MISSED THE EUROVISION SAX DUDE 🤣 __*

  • @maltycultural7793
    @maltycultural7793 Год назад

    What a strange list. Not one most sax players would agree with (not that they agree on anything).

  • @trexadvent4726
    @trexadvent4726 Год назад +1

    How many of you remember the Simpsons which there's an episode about Lisa Simpson gets jealous about another girl who's great with a Saxophone? She sabotages anyone who she thinks is better than her especially her siblings instead of being appreciating them

  • @maxwellkowal3065
    @maxwellkowal3065 Год назад +2

    This list definitely isn't biased at all 🙄
    For real, though, specify which field of music you're focusing on; jazz saxophone has its challenges that are unique to the jazz world, but there are challenging saxophone solos in the west-European classical tradition with unique challenges in that field as well, not forgetting other fields of music that use saxophone of course.
    Also, 11:51 says alto sax, but it's featuring him playing the bass clarinet. They really don't know what they're talking about.

  • @trexadvent4726
    @trexadvent4726 Год назад

    Can you do comic book origin of DC Music Meister?

  • @rodrigopinho34rally71
    @rodrigopinho34rally71 Год назад

    this is easy for dreamybull

  • @ashleybrown4754
    @ashleybrown4754 Год назад

    I really hope this video doesn’t blow

  • @O4FUXACHE
    @O4FUXACHE Год назад +3

    First clip and you can't tell the difference between a saxophone and a clarinet ?

    • @okayhonks
      @okayhonks Год назад +2

      That's a "soprano saxophone," just not bent into the classic "S" shape we're used to.

    • @bailzzzzzz
      @bailzzzzzz Год назад +4

      That's a soprano sax my man. It shouldn't be in this list because of how technically simple and derivative the song is however

    • @marcjameswhelan
      @marcjameswhelan Год назад

      Ha ha thought you were clever there didn't you, Muppet

  • @dongrant4969
    @dongrant4969 Год назад +1

    This music is ancient!!! This is 2023 not the 1950's or 60's. The best sax I remember is from Baker Street and that's from 1978, 45 years ago.

    • @billmurray7473
      @billmurray7473 Год назад

      You Millennials and Gen Zs are
      FOREVER LOST.
      Your post shows you have
      ZERO Appreciation for
      Real Music.
      SO glad I didn't add to your numbers.

  • @ryansenft3315
    @ryansenft3315 Год назад

    Two words: Kenny G.

  • @trexadvent4726
    @trexadvent4726 Год назад

    Is playing a Saxophone easy or difficult? Is it similar to playing a Flute?

    • @kristenmackenzie1120
      @kristenmackenzie1120 Год назад

      Saxophone is easier to play than a flute, a flute has more wide range of pitches generally three octaves and a saxophone only has 2 1/2 octaves. *Used to play flute and clarinet, never played saxophone*

    • @ilytoob
      @ilytoob Год назад

      If you play flute, the fingerings are similar so that won’t be much an issue! Getting your mouth right might be a bit hard at first but it’s not that bad once you get used to it! -a sax player

    • @marcjameswhelan
      @marcjameswhelan Год назад

      Ask some more stupid questions bot

  • @fanmarvel2967
    @fanmarvel2967 Год назад

    Kenny G the best

  • @trexadvent4726
    @trexadvent4726 Год назад

    Can you do top 10 worst things that Marge and Lisa Simpson have done which makes them as bad as Homer and Bart who deserve better?

  • @jorgeadairramos7469
    @jorgeadairramos7469 Год назад +1

    I'm posible que no te preocupes por el momento de chat y