edit: Oops, didn't see it mentioned already. Well I'll recommend their entire catalogue then (which is fairly small) as I believe all but one or two songs contains sax solos.
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - most of his songs
Glenn Frey - The One You Love
INXS - Original Sin (dance mix)
Mark-Almond - Home To You
The Doors - Touch Me
Traffic - The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
Read all before, and wow there are a few I hadn't heard. Just wondered why Hazel O'connor's "Will You" (from the film "Breaking Glass") hadn't featured in anyone's list. Ok, it's all down to our individual taste, but this must surely be up there somewhere.
Enjoy it if you've never heard it before.
Two of my particular favourites are The Gumbo Variations by Frank Zappa and Get Ready by Rare Earth.
Gumbo is in two parts - the first dominated by Ian Underwood's sax and the second by Sugarcane Harris's electric violin.
The sax parts are extraordinary. Underwood gets a range of extreme noises out of his instrument that I have never heard the like of. Get Ready is the Motown classic, but given 23 minutes of airtime in which (as in Trad Jazz), each musician gets an opportunity to strut his stuff. The sax bit is very good.
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