Question: Do you foresee a time when saxophone becomes common again in popular music?

It would be nice for instrumental pop music to come back again. That really ended after the 60s. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, surf music, and there were a few instrumental pop sax players like Boots Randolph.


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rickenvox said:
It would be nice for instrumental pop music to come back again. That really ended after the 60s. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, surf music, and there were a few instrumental pop sax players like Boots Randolph.


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That's kinda what inspired this thread, that and listening to rock n' roll with sax. I guess maybe the last big instrumental hit like that was Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart's 'Lily Was Here'? That was a long ass time ago.
 
Lady Gaga brought in the new age of sax on Edge of Glory.

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And now current artists use it now and again.







Last year Carly had saxophone at the end of her I Want You In My Room (though it didn't get on the charts).

 
Bones McHorror said:
Lady Gaga brought in the new age of sax on Edge of Glory.

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And now current artists use it now and again.







Last year Carly had saxophone at the end of her I Want You In My Room (though it didn't get on the charts).

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Good examples.

Katy Perry had sax on 'Last Friday Night' too, but that's a long time ago.

I like the squonky sax on Electric Six's 'Danger! High Voltage'.
 
I don't see why it wouldn't. It's a great instrument and there are a crap ton of amazing players out there. When my daughter was growing up she was the typical teen with the earbuds and such (nothing wrong with that IMO). Had no clue as to what live music sounded like. Turns out I had a gig with five horns and I drug her along with eyes rolling. I made her sit just off stage near the horns and that did it. Now all she listens to is big band stuff of every decade.

Exposure is key.

 
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Not in popular music unless there is some nostalgia-rock thing that happens. For the most part it is as dead in popular music as the trombone. And the guitar.
 
Motorik said:
That's kinda what inspired this thread, that and listening to rock n' roll with sax. I guess maybe the last big instrumental hit like that was Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart's 'Lily Was Here'? That was a long ass time ago.
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Well my favorites were Roxy Music/Andy MacKay and the sax work on many of Bowie’s songs.

Trivia question - no googling: what iconic jazz sax player was featured on a Rolling Stones hit?


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