 | The Complete Savoy Masters by Charlie Parker
Buy used from: $13.79 Charlie Parker. OK OK not a "Bluesman"! But Parker's Mood has to be the most moving ever blues on an alto sax or anything else!
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 | John Coltrane: Crescent by John Coltrane Quartet
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $4.96 ... And Coltrane! Crescent is my favourite 'Trane album. Lonnie's lament reduces me to tears. Just had to include it. Not 'all blues' by any means! (see below!)
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 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.71 This is difficult - trying to restrict my choices of these masters to blues(related) stuff! Coltrane again!(and Miles!) Not 'all blues' by any means, but does include the definitive version of "All Blues"!!!!
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 | I Want a Little Girl by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Buy used from: $6.49 That's Parker and Coltrane out of my system! Now for some "blues" sax men!
Hard to pick one by Cleanhead.
I've had this for a while on vinyl. Probably more jazz-oriented than most. Eddie sounds great though. (This guy amazingly:
1. Sounds uncannily like Parker
2. Wrote Miles' favourite 'Tune Up' AND
3. Was one of Coltrane's first employers!!!)
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 | Blues, Boogie & Bebop - Meat's Too High by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Buy used from: $22.69 Everything's here - the best of his latter day stuff. Have to dig out some early stuff too!
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 | The Turning Point by John Mayall
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.64 Listen to Johnny Almond's alto on "So Hard To Share" - I can't understand why this guy never became a star (in jazz or blues). This is what kicked it off for me way back! Never heard anyone play a blues with such articulation and tone. Amazing!
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 | Mark-Almond by Mark-Almond
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $51.39 Had to pick another one by Johnny! (1970) Not blues - but "The City" was another one with that blues-steeped sax (tenor this time). As a rock fan I never recovered!
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 | Movin' and Groovin' Man by Eddie Shaw
Buy used from: $11.92 Another guy with a great sound (saxes and vocal)! Some blues sax players concentrate on volume and miss out on tone - not this guy! - Brilliantly recorded, from Howlin' Wolf's last musical director.
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