The 50 Best Jazz Saxophonists Of All Time - uDiscover Music
A raft of virtuoso jazz saxophonists during the 50s, including tenor heavyweights Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane.
Stan Getz
Alvin Cohn enjoyed a long and fruitful collaboration with fellow tenor Zoot Sims – and, together, the pair were considered by Jack Kerouac to be among the best jazz saxophonists of the 50s, and were asked to play on his 1959 poetry album Blues And Haikus. Cohn gained notoriety playing alongside Sims and <anchor>Stan Getz</anchor> in Woody Herman’s Second Herd during the late 40s, and, despite being born and raised in Brooklyn, he came to be associated with the West Coast cool sound. Cohn’s signature was a bright but full-bodied saxophone tone out of which he poured rivulets of mellifluous melody.
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# Stan Getz

The jazz saxophonist from Philadelphia was renowned for his tenor saxophone playing, as well as for popularizing the bossa nova sound in the United States.

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If casual music fans have heard of just one jazz saxophonist or even musician, it is most likely to be Stan Getz. His playing was rich and varied and always encouraged people to listen, none more so than to his mellifluous playing on the early 1960s albums with a bossa nova beat. He acquired the nickname ‘The Sound’ – it is not difficult to hear why.

“There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.” – Stan Getz

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Stan Getz’s family emigrated to West Philadelphia from Kiev in 1903 to escape the Ukrainian Pogroms; Stan was born in Philadelphia 24 years later. His father, in search of employment, moved the family to New York City. Despite working hard at school, young Stan’s attention soon turned to music and he tried out as many instruments as possible – piano, harmonica, bassoon in the school band – and displayed a photographic memory along with an uncanny ability to play tunes by ear and hum Benny Goodman’s solos. Lessons and practice – up to eight hours a day – taught him good sight-reading skills as well as developing his instinctive sense of pitch and rhythm.

When Getz was thirteen years old, his father bought him a $35 alto saxophone, and he was soon playing other saxophones and clarinets but favoured the sound of the tenor saxophone, which he saved up to buy from working a series of jobs and by playing low-paid gigs. In 1941, he entered the All-City High School Orchestra of New York City, which provided a free private tutor from the New York Philharmonic, but his studies began to compete for time with his evening engagements and late-night jam sessions. Dropping out of school in 1942, he was hired by bandleader Dick ‘Stinky’ Rogers to play at the Roseland Ballroom for $35 a week, joined the musicians’ union and a year later was offered a place with Jack Teagarden’s band at $70 a week.

Encouraged by his father, Getz went on tour, having to become Teagarden’s ward because he was under sixteen years old. However, unlike many other musicians playing with the big bands, it meant that he was too young for the draft, and therefore played with Stan Kenton (1944–1945), Jimmy Dorsey (1945) and Benny Goodman (1945–1946). While he was touring with Kenton, Getz developed a heroin habit – ironically in an attempt to cut down on how much he was drinking. The Pres was a major influence on Getz’s early sound; he was especially fond of Count Basie’s ‘Song Of The Islands’ from 1939.

Leaving Goodman and moving to California, Getz found like-minded souls in saxophonists Herb Steward, Zoot Sims and Jimmy Giuffre, who also worshipped Young. They were also friendly with Woody Herman’s spotter and were invited to join his Second Herd in 1947. Getz, Sims, Steward and Serge Chaloff together formed a sub-unit called ‘The Four Brothers’, while Giuffre was taken on as arranger bringing the band great success with his tune ‘Four Brothers’, tailored to highlight each of the four soloists and then combine them in a typical Herman’s Herd’s hard-hitting crescendo. The arrangement was so popular that the band became known by the same name, and understandably Getz shot to stardom from a string of popular tracks, especially for his solo on 1948’s mellow ‘Early Autumn’.

Getz’s individual popularity gave him the impetus to leave Herman at the end of the decade and form his own groups: a quartet with guitarist Jimmy Raney, trombonist Bob Brookmeyer and Al Haig on piano, then Horace Silver also on piano, who he ‘discovered’ in 1950. Significantly, Getz made the first of his many visits to Scandinavia in 1951. After some studio work in New York, he began leading mostly quintets; notably one with Al Haig, Jimmy Raney, Teddy Kotick and Tiny Kahn who appeared with Billie Holiday at the Storyville Club in Boston.

Despite drug problems, ironically made worse by his attempts to give up heroin, Getz had a successful decade in the 1950s. Norman Granz signed him to Clef records in late 1952 and almost immediately he was in the studio to record two weeks before Christmas with Duke Jordan (piano), Jimmy Raney (guitar), Bill Crow (bass) and Frank Isola (drums), and when the album came out early the following year as _**Stan Getz Plays**_, it was prescient of what he did over the next decade for Clef, Norgran and Verve.

Stan Getz made a huge number of records under his own name as well as participating in Granz jam sessions with the likes of Count Basie and Buddy DeFranco, and he also recorded with Dizzy Gillespie in 1953. In 1955, he did an album with Granz called **_The Modern Jazz Society_**, on which he appeared with the MJQ’s rhythm section and trombonist J. J. Johnson among others, and later in the year with Lionel Hampton. His first record for Verve was in 1956 as **_Diz & Getz_**, and in 1957 he appeared on Buddy Bregman’s excellent **_Swinging Kicks_** album of big-band jazz. By 1957, he hardly ever seemed to be out of a studio recording for Verve, including recording with **[Ella](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artist/ella-fitzgerald/)** on numbers such as a beauty called ‘Midnight Sun’; 1957 was also the year he first appeared with JATP.

He won a string of Down Beat polls in this period but had previously been arrested for attempting to steal morphine from a pharmacist in 1954. He spent several months recuperating after collapsing in Stockholm a year later and then lived in self-imposed exile in Copenhagen in 1958 when he toured Europe to beat his addiction. This did not stop him recording for Verve, however; Granz just used a studio in Stockholm.

Getz returned to the United States in 1961, recording the orchestrated album _**Focus**_ that he would later name his favourite. Then in 1962 – even though his stylistic move during his stay overseas had been generally towards the edgier material of [**John Coltrane**](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artist/john-coltrane/) and Ornette Coleman – a major success that no one could have predicted came with the comparatively subdued ‘Desafinado’, recorded with Charlie Byrd and released on _**Jazz Samba**_ (1962). ‘Desafinado’ made No. 15 on the Billboard pop chart and helped propel the album to the No. 1 spot – jazz did not top the pop album charts. Bossa nova was ‘in’, and in March 1963 he recorded with the Brazilian pianist **[Antônio Carlos Jobim](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artist/antonio-carlos-jobim/)** and guitarist and singer João Gilberto. The session included ‘The Girl From Ipanema’, famously featuring the vocals of Gilberto’s wife Astrud. The song was a huge crossover hit, reaching No. 2 and only denied the top chart position by [**The Beatles**](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artist/the-beatles/). Released the following year, _**Getz/Gilberto**_ made No. 2 on the pop album chart was awarded the Grammy for ‘Album Of The Year’; again an unprecedented success for a jazz record.

Having helped to popularize the genre with Western audiences, Getz rarely returned to bossa nova. Instead, he maintained a high standard of output in contemporary mainstream jazz. A highlight from 1967 is the impassioned Verve album _**Sweet Rain**_, with Chick Corea, Ron Carter and Grady Tate. Additionally featured were Stanley Clarke and Tony Williams, along with Chick Corea, whose career Getz had helped launch previously, and whom he now also asked to contribute material. The quintet, completed by Airto Moreira, juxtaposed Getz’s traditional tone against an electric jazz backdrop.

Of note, also from 1972, is a concert that was originally billed as Ella Fitzgerald backed by Tommy Flanagan and the Count Basie Orchestra. However, Norman Granz invited Getz plus a few more ‘surprise’ guests. The resulting JATP event at the Santa Monica Civic also featured Harry Edison, Roy Eldridge, Al Grey, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, Oscar Peterson, Freddie Green, Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. It was one of the first releases on Pablo, Norman Granz’s new record label.

Even though his previous successes enabled Getz to live in semi-retirement he continued to tour frequently, often favouring Europe during the summer. In 1975 he played with João Gilberto again, in New York, and the 1980s saw some fascinating collaborations, with Chet Baker in Norway (1983), Helen Merrill (1989) and Abbey Lincoln (1991).

Getz’s final recording was made in Copenhagen in 1991, three months before he died, for EmArcy in a duo with his regular pianist of the previous half-decade, Kenny Barron. Getz had continued touring right up until his death from liver cancer.

_Words: Richard Havers_

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Key cut: ‘Straight, No Chaser’ Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday Sings (Clef, 1952) Born Eleanora Fagan, in Baltimore, Billie Holiday possessed one of the most recognisable voices in jazz: languid and imbued with an inherent sadness and a naked emotional honesty that resulted from her tough upbringing and romantic disappointments. After her apprenticeship with several big bands, Holiday carved out a distinguished solo career, first at Columbia and later at Verve. This 1952 album (initially released as an eight-track set on a 10” format) found her recording for producer Norman Granz’s Clef label and serving up indelible versions of ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’, ‘You Go To My Head’, and a touching rendition of Duke Ellington’s ‘Solitude’. In 1956, an expanded 12” version was released under the title Solitude. A timeless collection illustrating “Lady Day” at her peak. Key cut: ‘You Go To My Head’ The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut, 1953) The Quintet was a modern jazz supergroup that formed specifically for a one-off gig in Canada, at Toronto’s Massey Hall, on 15 May 1953. It was the only time that alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Bud Powell, bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach played together as a group (it was also the final time that Parker and Gillespie were captured on tape together). Despite his drug problems, the mercurial Parker is on magnificent form, shining brightly on a six-track album that was once hailed as the greatest ever jazz recording (even though Charles Mingus, who released it on his own Debut label, felt compelled to overdub his bass parts in a studio, as his instrument was inaudible on the original tape). A rare meeting of jazz giants. Key cut: ‘A Night In Tunisia’ Clifford Brown And Max Roach: Clifford Brown And Max Roach (EmArcy, 1954) One of the early architects of a jazz style known as hard bop, which came to dominate the genre during the 50s, Clifford Brown was a gifted trumpeter who was cut down in his prime. Though he was killed in a car accident when he was just 25, on 25 June 1956, his genius is preserved by the many recordings he made. Clifford Brown And Max Roach was one of his best, made in tandem with a quintet he co-led with drummer Max Roach. It features Bud Powell’s piano-playing brother, Richie, who also died in that fatal car accident with Brown, along with tenor saxophonist Harold Land. “Brownie”, as the trumpeter was known, is sensational throughout the album, but especially brilliant on a thrilling version of Victor Young’s ‘Delilah’. He shows his prowess as a composer with his own fine number ‘Joy Spring’, which is an archetypal example of hard hop. Key track: ‘Joy Spring’ Count Basie And His Orchestra: April In Paris (Verve, 1957) Originally from Red Bank, New Jersey, Bill Basie, like his contemporary Duke Ellington, adopted an aristocratic title for a stage name and was a major force in the rise of the swing big bands of the 30s. Though most big bands had bitten the dust by the 50s (largely due to economic factors), Basie kept his going and enjoyed something of a renaissance. Regarded by many as the Basie band’s finest moment in a recording studio, April In Paris captures the swagger, verve, finesse and fuel-injected power of an ensemble that featured in its ranks trumpeter Thad Jones, saxophonist Frank Foster and rhythm guitarist Freddie Green. Among the many highlights is the buoyant title track, along with ‘Shiny Stockings’ and ‘Corner Pocket’. Big band jazz at its absolute peak. Key cut: ‘Corner Pocket’ John Coltrane: Blue Train (Blue Note, 1958) Coltrane’s journey from an average bar-walking blues player into a seer-like jazz pathfinder is miraculous. Blue Train was the saxophonist’s first truly great album, coming after he kicked his heroin habit for good. It was recorded in September 1957 as a one-off for Blue Note during a time when “Trane” was actually contracted to Bob Weinstock’s Prestige label. The album features a sextet – with Curtis Fuller’s trombone adding richer sonorities to the horn section – and contains five songs, all but one written by Coltrane. Blue Train’s most memorable cut is its 10-minute title tune, which begins with a distinctive clarion call-like horn theme before morphing into a showcase for Coltrane’s unique approach to improvisation (which was described as “sheets of sound” by one US jazz critic). Key cut: ‘Blue Train’ Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else (Blue Note, 1958) An alto saxophonist from Tampa, Florida, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley was initially viewed as the heir to Charlie Parker. He found his own individual voice on his instrument, though, as this 1958 album – his only release on Blue Note – clearly illustrated. Cannonball, who was playing in the Miles Davis sextet at the time (and would go on to record the iconic Kind Of Blue with the trumpeter a year later), managed to rope his boss into the sessions. Miles rarely appeared as a sideman after 1955 but shines in a quintet opposite Cannonball using a muted horn on the tracks ‘Autumn Leaves’ and ‘Love For Sale’. He also wrote the title song. A stunning example of late 50s hard bop. Key cut: ‘Autumn Leaves’ Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Moanin’ (Blue Note, 1958) A powerhouse drummer and bandleader who could drive his musicians with a propulsive sense of swing, Art Blakey had a missionary-like zeal in his desire to spread the jazz gospel. Moanin’ arguably represents the pinnacle of Blakey’s work with his long-running band, The Jazz Messengers – dubbed “The Hard Bop Academy” on account of the all the many talented musicians that came through its ranks (ranging from Wayne Shorter to Wynton Marsalis). The gospel-influenced title song (written by Philly pianist Bobby Timmons), with its antiphonal cadences, anticipates the soul jazz style that would emerge from hard bop. Other great moments on the album include the tunes ‘Along Came Betty’ and ‘Blues March’, two classics both penned by Blakey’s then tenor saxophonist, Benny Golson. Blakey’s prowess as a sticksman is highlighted on the dramatic ‘Drum Thunder Suite’. Key cut: ‘Moanin’’ Chet Baker: Chet (Riverside, 1959) With his chiselled demeanour, Chet Baker became the poster boy for the West Coast “cool” jazz scene of the 50s (despite the fact that he hailed from Oklahoma). Behind the matinee-idol good looks, however, there lurked a serious addiction to drugs which derailed his career several times. By the time Chet came out, the trumpeter had already been incarcerated for drugs offences. Despite his many travails, he sounds in good shape on an album that focuses exclusively on his trumpet playing (rather than his vocals). The material is a selection of standards (including ‘How High The Moon’ and ‘It Never Entered My Mind’) and features pianist Bill Evans, flautist Herbie Mann and guitarist Kenny Burrell. Despite the high quality of his sidemen, Baker isn’t eclipsed by their presence and contributes some beautifully lyrical trumpet lines. Key cut: ‘It Never Entered My Mind’ The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (Columbia, 1959) California-born pianist Dave Brubeck had a penchant for playing music in unusual and unorthodox meters, and his quartet’s most famous song was this album’s title cut. An infectious number written in 5/4 time, ‘Take Five’ became a hit single in 1960 and was written by Brubeck’s alto saxophonist, Paul Desmond, initially as a vehicle to showcase the quartet’s drummer, Joe Morello. Other highlights on the album include ‘Blue Rondo A La Turk’ (rendered in 9/4 time) and ‘Three To Get Ready’ (in 3/4). Brubeck’s popularity showed that innovations in jazz didn’t need to come at the expense of the music’s accessibility. Undoubtedly one of the greatest jazz albums ever. Key cut: ‘Time Out’ ﻿ Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) This iconic album, which began as a routine session, succeeded in transforming Miles Davis into a superstar. An off-the-cuff experiment in modal jazz (in which the music was created using set scales and fewer chords), Kind Of Blue became the biggest-selling jazz album of all time and vividly demonstrated that innovation wasn’t necessarily the antitheses of commerciality. Davis leads a stellar sextet that includes saxophonists John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, plus Bill Evans on piano. The album, which redefined modern jazz, proved to be one big highlight from start to finish, beginning with the chilled groover, ‘So What’, and progressing to the mellow, Spanish-tinged ‘Flamenco Sketches’. Key cut: ‘So What’ Ella Fitzgerald: Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife (Verve, 1960) During the live performance in Germany that resulted in this classic album, jazz’s “First Lady Of Song” did the unthinkable and forgot the lyrics to an impromptu version of ‘Mack The Knife’ (in her defence, the song wasn’t in her repertoire, and she prefaces the performance by saying, “We hope we remember all the words”). The irrepressible singer improvised her way out of the predicament with new, spontaneously-created lyrics that included, at the song’s climax, the unforgettable line, “We’re making a wreck, what a wreck, of ‘Mack The Knife’.” The performance won Fitzgerald a Grammy in the category of Best Vocal Performance, Female, and remains a shining example of how spontaneity can shape jazz’s greatest performances. Key cut: ‘Mack The Knife’ Jimmy Smith: Back At The Chicken Shack (Blue Note, 1963) The man who gave credibility to the Hammond organ in a jazz context, Jimmy Smith was a prolific recording artist for Blue Note Records during the late 50s and early 60s. Back At The Chicken Shack was recorded in 1960 at the same time as Smith’s Midnight Special album, but its four songs weren’t released until three years later. They find the Norristown organ-grinder in the company of tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, guitarist Kenny Burrell (on two tracks) and drummer Donald Bailey. The title track is a long, lazy blues which epitomised Smith’s down-home-style soul jazz aesthetic. Turrentine’s sax, with its husky intonation and churchy inflections, is also a stand-out feature of an album that is a jazz organ masterclass. Key cut: ‘Back At The Chicken Shack’ Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery (Riverside, 1960) The super-talented and profoundly influential Indianapolis-born fretboard maestro didn’t let his inability to read music affect his career. Influenced by Charlie Christian, Montgomery patented a distinctive and dexterous style that combined horn-like single-note melodies with block chords and unison octaves. This was his third album, recorded in New York with a quartet that contained pianist Tommy Flanagan, and the Heath brothers, Percy and Albert, on bass and drums, respectively. Montgomery charges out of the blocks with a fleet-fingered rendition of Sonny Rollins’ hard bop staple ‘Airegin’, but shows his sensitive side on tender ballads such as ‘In Your Own Sweet Way’. It’s his own compositions that impress the most, however, especially ‘Four On Six’ and ‘West Coast Blues’, which are now regarded as jazz standards. Key cut: ‘Four On Six’ Bill Evans Trio: Waltz For Debby (Riverside, 1962) A deeply sensitive musician who possessed an extraordinary musicality and exquisite good taste, Evans pioneered a singular approach to the piano that reflected his interest in classical music (especially the work of the Romantic and Impressionist composers) as much as jazz. The companion album to Sunday At The Village Vanguard, Waltz For Debby was taken from the same live performances, recorded on 25 June 1961. Evans’ trio (with Scott LaFaro, who died in a car crash 10 days later, on bass, and drummer Paul Motian) show an almost telepathic awareness of each other’s instruments and excel on a beautifully pensive ‘This Foolish Heart’ and a sublime version of the title track. The high point of piano trio music. Key cut: ‘My Foolish Heart’ Oliver Nelson: The Blues And The Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1961) A saxophonist who garnered more acclaim for his savvy arranging skills, St Louis-born Nelson didn’t make it past his 43rd birthday (he died in 1975 from a heart attack) but is fondly remembered by jazz fans for creating this album, one of genre’s greatest. Helmed by producer Creed Taylor, who had just launched Impulse! Records, The Blues And The Abstract Truth teamed Nelson with Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Roy Haynes, to create a timeless masterpiece. The album’s keystone is an original Nelson composition called ‘Stolen Moments’, which had been recorded a year earlier by Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis. It’s now considered a jazz standard. Key cut: ‘Stolen Moments’ Duke Ellington And Coleman Hawkins: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse!, 1963) Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was 64 when this, his collaboration with tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, was released. Hawkins was an admirer of the jazz aristocrat and the possibility of the two men working together had been broached as far back as the 40s, but for various reasons, the pair didn’t combine their talents until they convened in Van Gelder Studio in August 1962. Ellington didn’t use his full orchestra for the recording, instead, calling upon a smaller band comprised of its main stars, including alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges. While the pair offer up enjoyable versions of classic Ellington tunes (‘Mood Indigo’, ‘Solitude’), newer numbers, like the jaunty, joyous, opener, ‘Limbo Jazz’, are also noteworthy. A rewarding summit of jazz giants. Key cut: ‘Limbo Jazz’ Stan Getz And João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto (Verve, 1963) Getz/Gilberto was the album that not only launched the solo career of singer Astrud Gilberto but also helped to put the Brazilian bossa nova phenomenon on the world stage. Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz had already delved into Brazilian music via his 1962 collaboration with guitarist Charlie Byrd on the album Jazz Samba, but here he sought authenticity by hooking up with vocalist/guitarist João Gilberto. The performances of both were overshadowed by a cameo from Gilberto’s wife, Astrud, on the song ‘The Girl From Ipanema’, which became a huge global hit when released as a single (and also snared a Grammy). A sublime meld of American jazz and Brazilian bossa nova. 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