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Your Top 5 Sax Players?

Ok jazz heads I know there are tons of Tenor and Alto players out there that can impress you on any given day, but who would qualify to be on your ALLTIME great list of five? I know it is hard to limit it to just five, but that is just to make you think a little harder on who really gets to your heart and soul the most. Some guys had very short careers and others had very long ones with many great recordings of exceptional merit. Some were better live and others were better in the studio, but what we want to know is who could REALLY play? Here are my five.

1. Stan Getz
2. Sony Rollins
3. John Cotrane
4. Sonny Stitt
5. Ben Webster
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ohteeel
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Lester Young, Jerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, James Carter, and Joe Lovano.
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waltersalas
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in no particular order...

ornette coleman
john coltrane
charlie parker
sonny rollins
eric dolphy
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marakanetz
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michael brecker
ornette coleman
john zorn
evan parker
ravi coltrane
shoff
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1. Johnny Hodges
2. Gene Ammons
3. Stanley Turrentine
4. Stan Getz
5. John Coltrane
duanegoosen
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The Five rule is masochistic and it makes otherwise highly deluxe members (Ejlif for example) commit horrible crimes of omission. Anyway here are a few more that shouldn't ought to be left out:

Ken Vandermark
Scott Rosenberg (Rosenberg's Red/Owe)
Tom Guralnick (Pitchin')
Anthony Braxton (Start w/ 8 Standards on Barking Hoop)
John Gilmore
Jean Derome
Thomas Chapin
Dewey Redman
David Jackson (Van der Graaf)
Ned Rothenberg
Kurt McGettrick, Motorhead Sherwood, Ian Underwood (FZ)
Rich Halley
Jindra Dolansky (Uz Jsme Doma)
Dirk Bruinsma (Blast)
Charlie Kohlhase
Sabin Hudon (Miriodor)
Odean Pope
Johannes Pappert (Kraan)
James White
Archie Shepp
Pierre Labbe
Louis Sclavis (usually clarinet/ sometimes sax)
Yochk'o Seffer
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