WHO'S THE GREATEST SAXOPHONE PLAYER

In this Series of Posts, I will Writing about the Artist's who are in My "Who's the Greatest Saxophone Player" Poll. 

The Poll is over to the Right of this Blog, its been Running for a Couple of Day's, so if You Haven't already Voted, Please do so!

The Saxophonist's in the List are the One's Who have had Albums and Single's Released in Either The Soul, Funk, Dance or Commercial Jazz Sections of Music, I have not Included any Pure Jazz Musicians!

The Saxophone the Artists Play can be Anyone of the Following Tenor, Alto or Soprano or all of them of Course!

In these Post's, I will write a few Facts, Figures, Stats and Interesting Stuff on the Artist in Question, I will also include a Playlist of their Greatest Songs.

I will Write a Post on Each Artist, One Every Other Week!

This Week I will Mention a Few, Who Have Not Made the Top 10, but should be Mentioned, as I said I am Not Including any Pure Jazz Musicians, Just the Ones that have been Involved in R&B Music in Some Form! 

Over the Years I have Brought Albums (or Album's where they have Appeared) by All the Following Saxophonist's:

Stanley Turrentine

Ernie Watts

Gary Bartz

Walter Beasley

Sadao Watanabe

Jay Beckenstein

Don Myrick

Andrew Woolfolk

Some Great Saxophone Player's there, (I Don't Think I have Missed Out Anybody) but it is Only A Top Ten List!

If You have Read My Blog before, You will Probably Know My Favorite Sax Player of All-time is The Great "Junior Walker" I

have Written a Few Post's Concerning Him in the Past, and I have also a Page (Above) Concerning Some of Junior Walker's Great Music Video's!

The First Post Concerning this Subject will be in Two Weeks Time!

Here's One of My Favorite Junior Walker Tracks!

SPIDERMAN and SADAO WATANABE!

A couple of incidents I remember about living in the Flat, concerned Nathan!

At that particular time his Favorite Kids Cartoon was "Spiderman" so we had brought Him a Spiderman Suit including the Mask, I'm not sure whether these were Pyjamas's but I think it was a proper Spiderman Suit.

Anyway I came home from Work one Day and Susan was in a Right State, Nathan had his Spidey Suit on and was running about the Flat as he usually did, but this time he tried to open one of the Lounge Windows to Fly out of!

Normally this may have been Alright, but we lived on the Third (top) Floor of a Block of Flats!

And down below outside the Flat Window, as I have said in Previous Post, was the Local Cemetery!

We Laugh about this now, but at that time it was very Serious, so after that time we had Locks put on all of the Windows!

Another incident which Nathan was Involved in was I had Brought an Expensive 7" Single, it was on the "Champagne Record Label" and was called  "Hunt Up Wind" by Hiroshi Fukamura with Sadao Watanabe, that was a Great Track, and may have been the Dearest Single I have ever Brought!

Anyway to cut a long Story Short, the Record had been missing for a While and I had looked Everywhere, but could not find it, in fact I Believe I had given up looking for it!

Then one day I went in the Airing Cupboard looking for something else, and to my Surprise there was my Missing Single, I believe it was under a load of Clothes etc, Great I thought, until I looked more Closely, as I have said before in the Flat, our Heating System was a 
Hot Air Blowers, and the airing cupboard used to get Red Hot!

The Single was Warped from one side to the other , it was Ruined, in fact it had Cracked, right across the middle, in fact I still have the Single, checkout the Picture above!

I can also remember another time, when somebody spilled a Full Cup of Coffee over a pile of my 7" Singles, luckily that time only the Sleeve's were Ruined!

Kid's are Great!