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!

TAKEAWAY and WILL DOWNING

After my Father Died in June of 1987, things took a while to get back to Normal, we had Just Moved back into the same House we had previously moved out of, so we were trying to Sort this out and keep an eye on my Mother.

As I said previously my Mother was only in her Mid-Forties, so this was a Big Shock to her, me and Susan used to go round to the House several times per Week, and taking her Places, getting her Shopping in and generally making sure she was not on her own a lot.

I can't Remember to much around this Period, understandably I suppose,  but I do Remember I was still Self-Employed, so I needed to start earning some more Money again! 

I had my Mobile-Shop still so I was selling stuff around our way, People used to bang on the Front Door and I would go and open up the Van to Sell them what ever they wanted!

I cant Remember how long this went on for, but what did happen shortly afterwards was, my Father's Will was Read, and my Mother Insisted that my Father Wanted me to have some sort of  Help, Starting up a Business!

This I agreed to and then I Started Looking for some sort of Business to Rent or Buy.

As I was a Qualified Chef, I started Looking for some sort of Food/Eating Place, I did after a few weeks of Searching find a Take-Away in my Home Town of Gorleston, It was Actually 2 Minutes from where we used to live, so I knew the Area well.

So we started doing some Research on the Place, we also went down there when it was Open for Business, and it seemed a Fairly Busy Little Place, Selling Fish & Chip's and a Very Small Restaurant, as well!

But as it Turned out, things were not all they Seemed at the Take-away (more on this next time)!

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Now for some Music, back in 1988 Will Downing Released his Self-Titled Debut Album for the 4th & Broadway Record Label, and the First Single from the Album was a Track Called "A Love Supreme"

It was his Version of the "John Coltrane" Classic, it Reached Number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart!

The Song was Produced by Arthur Baker and Will Downing and Features the Great Stanley Turrentine on Saxaphone.

There was also a Great Mix Released shortly after, it was Called "A Love Supreme Jazz House Mix Dub, I've included that as well below! 

Will Downing has Released a Total of 13 Albums during his Career, and is still Recording Today!

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WORKMATES & STANLEY TURRENTINE!

 I remember when I was working at Bransbys Meat Factory Around the middle of 1981, I used to Bike to work, I only lived about 10 minutes away, that was the only Good Thing about Working there!

Most of the Blokes who Worked on my Section, were Alright! One had a Motorbike, so of course He had loads of Long Hair, and Stunk of Grease! another 2 of them were Right Know it All's, come to think about it,  in fact 3 of them were like that!

The Chap who made the Sausages was a Right Big Head, and we had another one who Worked Next to me most of the time, how can I say it, he was the sort of Chap who Skived off alot (most of us did!) and was very Concerned who I had been Talking to and who I had been standing near the previous day!

One of the better places to Skive off was the Smoke House, although it was a bit Smelly, it was always Hot!

The 2 Chaps in Charge of the Smoke House were a bit Younger than me, their Names were "Robin and I cant remember the others name", but they were  Probably the 2 best Workers there!

There was plenty of  Overtime available there, but I never did any, because I Really Hated the place!

I always Regretted, Leaving my Previous Employment and starting Work there!

Music of that time, I remember Buying a Commercial Jazz Album, Called "Tender Togetherness" by Stanley Turrentine, (This was my First Album I had purchased by Stanley Turrentine) it was Produced by Larry Dunn of Earth Wind & Fire.

The Album Featured some Great Musicians, ie Several members of  EW&F including Philip Bailey and the "Phenix Horns", as well as Nathan East, Paulinho DaCosta, Ndugu Chancler, Have a Listen to a few of the Tracks, especially the EW&F Cover!

My Favorite is Hermanos, have a Listen!

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THE 48th MIX FOR FSVB

Here's the 48th Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by HeavySoulBrutha, there's some classic Jazz/Jazz Funk Music Tracks on here, Its called Pieces of a Dream!

Its features Artistes including some Stanley Clarke, Bob James, Stanley Turrentine & Idris Mohammed.

Pieces Of Dreams! by Heavysoulbrutha on Mixcloud