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

I say yes as I see kids learning saxophone in the school systems I work in. One of those kids will come up with something.
 
After the coronavirus, and our entertainment is provided by traveling groups of musician/actors playing acoustic instruments, the saxophone will make a comeback.
 
Bones McHorror said:
Wes Montgomery doing schmaltz-y Beatles isn't good music. I don't think any of his fans think that was the highlight of his life.

And I didn't mean to say Bacharach himself is sacrosanct -- he did write "Arthur's Theme" and "That's What Friends are For" after all. He was plenty capable of cheesing it up on his own.
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Yes jazz snobs don’t like pop music. Doesn’t mean that pop instrumental music isn’t pleasant to listen to and makes some people feel good, which is the only real purpose in music. What’s more of a mystery is why people who listen to various rock genres (also pop music in the big scheme of things) call certain types of pop “cheesy” or “schmaltzy”. I use the terms but apply them equally within genres and not to dismiss an entire genre. Kenny G I hate, Windham Hill I occasionally like. Do you write songs? The highest achievement of songwriting is writing something pleasant and catchy enough that people go around singing it, or writing a melody that people go around whistling. The appeal of music to our brains is not entirely under our control and people naturally react to music that stimulates them by unknown means. Pop music and instrumental pop music achieves that across the general population more than any other music genre. Bacharach is cheesy. OK, cheese apparently triggers positive feelings in the human brain for a large percentage of the population (in it’s day). Post a melody you’ve written. Just whistle it. Not capable of even being cheesy?
 
rickenvox said:
What’s more of a mystery is why people who listen to various rock genres (also pop music in the big scheme of things) call certain types of pop “cheesy” or “schmaltzy”.
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The last popular artists to feature sax as part of their music were the Dave Matthews Band and before that Sting had Branford. Otherwise it's all parts of horn arrangements and the random solo here or there.

Guitars get to hang around because they are an excellent music prop for singing. You can still sing (or lip sync) with a guitar and it doesn't obscure you. And with all of the options out there, you can easily accessorize them with any outfit/costume.

I would dig it if it came back, but I'm not hearing much beyond synths, sequencers, drums, and bass in most modern popular music, as well as guitar...in a more supportive role.
 
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Dogsinotpalc said:
The last popular artists to feature sax as part of their music were the Dave Matthews Band and before that Sting had Branford. Otherwise it's all pars of horn arrangements and the random solo here or there.

Guitars get to hang around because they are an excellent music prop for a singing. You can still sing (or lip sync) with a guitar and it doesn't obscure you. And with all of the options out there, you can easily accessorize them with any outfit/costume.

I would dig it if it came back, but I'm not hearing much beyond synths, sequencers, drums, and bass in most modern popular music, as well as guitar...in a more supportive role.
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Kendrick Lamar has featured great sax.
 
Dogsinotpalc said:
As a regular part of every tune? Not much of fan, so I really do not know...
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Kamasi Washington is a part of his crew, and contributes regularly. His solo stuff is also very good.

Stones: Bobby Keys. Him, Ian McLagen, Nicky Hopkins ... they owe a lot of people, musically.
 
Danhedonia said:
Kamasi Washington is a part of his crew, and contributes regularly. His solo stuff is also very good.

Stones: Bobby Keys. Him, Ian McLagen, Nicky Hopkins ... they owe a lot of people, musically.
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Yeah. And the idea of a consistent list if band members of very much a rock & roll thing, and one that we’ll probably have to let go of if we’re having ‘popular music’ talks.
 
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