Blues Players

[mozzarate54]

Who are some great blues sax and trumpet players. A lot of the time us guitar players listen to only guitar players which is great but it's also good to listen to non guitar players because it gives you more diversity in your playing in terms of trying to emulate different sounds. So who are some of your favorite sax and trumpet blues players

[roycaster]

Except for Shot Gun, which might be more of an R & B song, I can’t think of any. Off the top of my head I can think of guitar, organ, piano, and harmonica players were as the horn section seems to end up playing punctuation.

[tedro]

Originally Posted by mozzarate54

Who are some great blues sax and trumpet players. A lot of the time us guitar players listen to only guitar players which is great but it's also good to listen to non guitar players because it gives you more diversity in your playing in terms of trying to emulate different sounds. So who are some of your favorite sax and trumpet blues players

Blue Train
check out Cannonball and Miles on Kind of Blue
and Mingus.

[delb0y]

If you consider jazz players playing the blues then the list is vast and wonderful - start with Louis Armstrong and work forwards!

Personal favourites on the sax include Johnny Hodges and Hank Mobley, both who played plenty of blues in their time.

If you include r'n'b and rock'n'roll the list grows even more - Little Richard's early tenor player Lee Allen is another favourite.

How about clarinet players? Check out Kenny Davern for some lovely blues lines. Horace Silver on the piano is another great source.

Kind regards,
Derek

[bluemud928]

blues sax= eddie shaw

[telepathetic]

I've lifted a lot of horn section riffs and chords from big band tunes for use in blues. Just the other night I was playing with a young guitarist and he he said "Man, that's sounds cool. Is that one of yours?".
It was Glenn Miller's "In the Mood".....

[jazztele]

Pick up Kenny Burrell's "All Night Long" to hear some of the best blues horn playing you'll ever run across...

There's an all day long too, and an all morning long from Red Garland which features John Coltrane...all good listening IMHO.

Great for getting out of the pentatonic trap.

[JoeNeri]

Big Jay McNeely - still gigging with his tenor sax at 85.

"There Is Something on Your Mind" - a legendary blues song.

[tedro]

w.c. handy! ...more of a "composer".
louis jordan! ...more of a "band leader".

[Jipes]

The list is not too long but you might want to check early Charlie Parker Blues including when playing in Jay Mac Shann band. Eddie Vinson is famous not only for his alto sax playing but for his great songs lyrics. The most active of all that I can think of is A.C Reed which plays on tons of Blues recordings



Eddie Shaw is also good to listen to

[stevieboy]

A couple of "younger" guys on this video. Greg Piccolo on tenor, Doug James on baritone. They were two of the mainstays of Roomful of Blues from their early days, a band you should check out for blues horn playing (and guitar playing!) Besides the sax section, they sometimes had trumpet and trombone players too.



I'm sure these guys would endorse all of the players mentioned so far. I know they were into Eddie Vinson, even recorded with him.

Joe Houston is another blues/R&B sax player going way back. Still kicking around Socal, but health issues have sidelined him.

[chezdeluxe]

Mid 60s B B King featured Bobby Forte on tenor sax. Check out the album "Blues is King", better than "Live at the Regal" in my opinion.

Sil Austin and King Curtis were RnR and RnB Tenor greats with wonderful slow blues playing in their repertoire.

Nat Adderley (Trumpet player and Cannonball's brother) was the composer of "The Work Song" and deserves attention. Other superb jazz trumpet players with a solid blues component to their work were Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Lee Morgan and Kenny Dorham.

[MonkeyKing]

Er, how about the King of Jukeboxes, Louis Jordan!

This thread amuses me, because I`m so old, I remember when

A) everyone was trying to break away from playing horn lines, from the beginning when the sax was the lead instrument in rock and roll

B) everyone was trying to get INTO horn lines - the cliche is when you`d see someone namecheck Coltrane - even a thrash or punk player of limited technique!

It all keeps comin` around!

[BB]

I'm stuck in the past as far as music goes.....from 1975 to 1995, I had a huge record/tape collection. From 95 on...not so much! So take it with a grain of salt here....

Jimmy Heath (of the Heath brothers) is an awesome tenor sax player and perhaps my all time favorite. Back in the day, John Klemmer and Grover Washington Jr put out some great sax music. I grabbed some great ideas from both of them. For trumpet, check out Chris Botti. Talk about a master of the instrument.

Louis Jordan was a great infulence on BB King and many other blues guitar players. Also, check out Joe Jacksons 'Jumpin Jive' album from 81 or so....lot's of good Jordan and Cab Calloway covers. While not really 'bluesy' per se, if ya don't get motivated and a lot of ideas from these two...well, Jack yoiur dead! I think this one was a big influence on Brian Setzer.

[tedro]

well, let's toss chet baker into the mix.
...just for a breather!

[collinsman]

' Grant Green" a must..

[jazztele]

Originally Posted by BB

For trumpet, check out Chris Botti. Talk about a master of the instrument.

Chris has a great tone...but...

Blues?

More on the jazz front, Miles could play a great blues...there's two of 'em on "Kind of Blue" which are fine places to start...great lines to cop too.

Chet Baker's an interesting mention, because I think a lot of people don't think of him as "bluesy." But if you check out the small group stuff he did in the 70's...you'll hear a guy who could definitely play some blues (he was certainly living the blues!)

[rwsand]

Originally Posted by Jipes

The list is not too long but you might want to check early Charlie Parker Blues including when playing in Jay Mac Shann band. Eddie Vinson is famous not only for his alto sax playing but for his great songs lyrics. The most active of all that I can think of is A.C Reed which plays on tons of Blues recordings



Eddie Shaw is also good to listen to

+1 Eddie Vinson !