Favorite Lesser Known Sax Players


Trane, Rollins, Bird, Desmond, Getz, Hawkins and Lester Young are names that are oftened invoked when the subject of great jazz sax players is brought up. Who are some of your favorite, albeit lesser known, sax players and your favorite recording of theirs? As a sax hack, I'll offer the following suggestions to chew on:

Willis 'Gator' Jackson - Call of the Gators
Red Holloway - In the Red
James Moody - Don't Look Back Now
Tina Brooks - True Blue
King Curtis - Night Train
Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge
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Here's some more...

Benny Golson
Norris Turney
Plas Johnson
Ornette Coleman
Curtis Amy
Harry Allen
This could cause a vessel to bust. It's already chewed up some listening time, but really shouldn't leave out:

Dick Heckstall Smith, (Colosseum)
Pablo Garcia, (Kre')
Yves Duboin, (Dr. Nerve)
Edward Capel, (Blast)
Naruyoshi Kikuchi, (Tipographica)
Dave Newhouse, (Muffins)
Gary Windo
Mike Osborne
Alan Skidmore
Ted Nash
Hakon Kornstad
Tore Brunborg, (Jon Balke, Masquelero)
One of my favorites over the last 50 years is Lennie Niehaus. Made some excellent recordings for Contemporary Records in the 50s which have been released on CDs. Lennie lead small groups and spent some time as the Alto Saxophone lead with Stan Kenton. Lately, he composed the sound track for "Bird" and other films.