Stanley Turrentine plays live in this video.  I love his sound.  He played with Jimmy Smith on several albums including ‘Midnight Special’ which I have listened to many times.

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Maceo Parker and band play at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2005.

I just saw Maceo Parker this last saturday at the Monterey jazz Festival and he put on a great show that included this song.  If you’re unfamiliar with Maceo Parker, he played saxophone with James Brown, Bootsy Collins, and many others especially in the world of funk.

The World Saxophone Quartet playing Money in Lovejoy, Illinois.

The World Saxophone Quartet is made up of Hamiet Bluiett and Oliver Lake, James Carter and Greg Osby. Bluiett went to this school and returned to play the concert.

James Carter and Joshua Redman square off at Carnegie Hall.

Two of the great young tenor players on the same stage. James Carter also played with the World Saxophone Quartet.  Joshua Redman was actually in law school when he decided to become a professional saxophonist.  He’s going to be at the Monterey Jazz Festival this year, so I’m looking forward to that.

Stan Getz & John Coltrane live in Düsseldorf, Germany. Along with the late Oscar Peterson. Extremely rare footage

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Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner play ‘Ask Me Now’

One of the first songs I heard with Joe Henderson was ‘Song For My Father’ on the album with Horace Silver.  He plays the second solo on that song.  It starts out simple, builds, and has a good shape to it.

We had it at home and my teacher Todd Clickard also played it at lessons since we worked on that song.  Todd had taken lessons from Joe Henderson years ago in San Francisco and tells me stories aobut it sometimes.

Joe Henderson would take the train and never brougth his saxophone, but instead sat at the piano.  He was an accomplished piano player in addition to being a great saxophonist.  Joe Henderson taught Todd a solo that he played on the song ‘Relaxin at Camarillo’ which I only recently found at a CD store in Boston.  Not the same solo Todd learned though.

Michael Brecker plays Delta City Blues, there’s a solo saxophone introduction for a bit.  He uses overtones heavily in the song.

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Big Phat Band - Jazz Police

Eric Marienthal takes the sax solo

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