Playing a lead vocal line on sax

Stevie Wonder’s ‘Golden Lady’ is a great tune to play on sax and can be approached with a degree of creativity that emulates the interesting aspects of a lead vocal line. Obviously vocalists have the advantage of using a wide variety of vowels and consonants contained in the lyrics which present a good deal of interest. On sax we can use micro dynamics, vibrato, lip slurs, rhythmic displacement and numerous other techniques to maintain variety in the lead line. Here is one approach using this famous song as an example.