Thank Broadsheet it’s Friday.
To celebrate the bright new dawn that is the weekend, I’m giving away a highly coveted Golden Discs voucher worth a lip-smacking €25.
To enter, simply tell me below what is your favourite song featuring the saxophone?
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my pet gerbil.
Lines MUST close at 3.15pm EXTENDED until 5.45pm 9.15pm MIDNIGHT Fupp it! We’re going thru until 6am! YOKESYOKESYOKES
Nick says: Good luck!
Meanwhile…
from top: at the launch of the new Golden DIscs store in Jervis Street. from left: Zoe – Golden Discs, Nicole – Golden Discs, customer Tamas Zsitnyanszki, customer Boviz Adrianna, Adam Layton – Golden Discs and Kibby – Golden Discs. Golden Discs CEO Stephen Fitzgerald
Free tomorrow?
Golden Discs will open a flagship store in Dublin’s Jervis Shopping Centre, Jervis Street, Dublin 1
It follows recent store openings in Drogheda, Sligo and Tralee and brings the total number of Golden Discs stores nationwide to 21.
Golden Discs writes:
The vinyl renaissance is driving this expansion, and the flagship Jervis store will be a whopping 2,500 square feet full of new release and deep catalogue vinyl.
The store will also stock a broad range of turntables, headphones and speakers as well as an extensive range of CD, DVD, Boxset and Blu-ray releases.
In addition, the store will carry the groups largest ‘Loot Vault’ section with an increasing array of T-shirts, posters, games, books and limited-edition collectibles for sale. Golden Discs Jervis will be a one-stop shop for all your entertainment needs, perfect for the busy shopper in the run up to Christmas.
CEO Stephen Fitzgerald says:
‘Having only one city-centre store in Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, we have been inundated with requests to return to the Henry Street shopping district. Our team has spent a lot of time looking for the right space and we believe this spacious flagship store will be a superb return to the Jervis Shopping Centre.’
In fairness.
Pics: Aidan Oliver
What’s a saxaphone? some new thing?
Thanks, Stan, fixed now. Sorry.
Salty.
Stan Getz it.
Cardiacs – Tarred and Feathered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjSycDJatc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvfI6Q5WFT0
Ezra Furman – Lousy Connection
For me a sax solo has to go a bit crazy and squeaky a la bowie sax solos, I first heard this song the day that David Bowie died and it shone a little light on that day
Cardiacs – Tarred and Feathered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjSycDJatc
https://youtu.be/izGwDsrQ1eQ
George Michael, Careless Whisper
(don’t judge me)
you beat me to it! I love that sax solo, it is wonderfully sleazy
filthy :)
George Michael has some seriously sexy tunes, love girding my loins/gyrating to the above and also to Outside. Can’t get a fella not to be blushing by it though
that just means you’re doing it right ;)
+1!
I’ll only judge you in a positive way for that choice.
M83 – Midnight City
A bouncing synth track that harks back to 80s pop, it finishes on a rousing sax solo that never fails to make me dance like a moron. Always reminds me of late nights in The Globe.
https://youtu.be/dX3k_QDnzHE
winner
Yup
Chicken dinner!
David Bowie – I Can’t Give Everything Away
https://youtu.be/vmsJcKk4oKU?list=PLql5iS_v4447Sg6n1AD7uq4RF-8Daxlav
proper Broadsheet Friday fare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfZVNv6w2E
:)
How about a bit of John Cusack on sax?
From Better Off Dead – if you have not seen the film, do! So many wonderful moments :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6YWqiBRuTk
Sorry, much better clip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYQNV35ggo
My Lovely Horse
(before Ted cut the sax solo!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHCaH-rt5M
gee, u beat me to it!
feckin heathens, the lot of ye.
there is only one – ‘a love supreme’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUapMTgWD0
Lily was here – Dave Stewart feat. Candy Dulfer…could listen to this for hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ3SN0n5cQE
Always sounds ever so slightly out of tune to me, Dave’s guitar. Am I right?
It’s got to be Gerry Rafferty ‘Baker Street’. Innit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6w56epBdc
Yes it absolutely does. What a tune.
Some pop trivia – did you know that the riff in question was most likely lifted from a jazz-rock tune written 10 years earlier? It might explain why Raphael Ravenscroft, who played sax on Baker’s Street, never pursued Gerry Rafferty for any royalties despite only ever being paid £27 for his work. Judge for yourself: ‘Steve Marcus – Half a Heart’ https://youtu.be/-kxG4U_1uv0
To Nick, who’s this challenge creator:
Let me say that you’re some operator
You say the deadline is nigh
when we know that’s a lie
Because it’s bound to be pushed back till later.
Oh and; Baker Street.
(C’mon someone had to say it).
Us and Them – Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKiLEgAzFDQ
Baker street is terrible other than the sax bit…
Great shout
Beat me to it…
Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) – Zimbabwe. Beautiful. https://youtu.be/q0xQc3Jdd2I
Niiicee!. I enjoyed that. Here’s one on a kinda similar vibe. Jazzy funk from South Africa – Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath – MRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCWgviwmBFk
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking- The Rolling Stones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c
Bobby Keys on the sax, melty as hell. NIce contrast against the grainy opening half.
Let’s Stick Together – Bryan Ferry
Andy McKay on sax
Good call on Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
https://youtu.be/IxuThNgl3YA
Oops wrong video
https://youtu.be/fFPQa-pEt9c
Walk on the Wlid Side. – Lou Reed. Has the best and shortest sax solo ever, by David Bowie’s sax teacher and jazz legend Ronnie Ross.
One Step Beyond – Madness
Rat Trap or Baker Street – drops mic.
I was going to say my lovely horse by Ted and Dougal but they got rid of the sax solo in the end….
Car seat headrest -Maud gone-
The low-fi, melancholic, Maud gone is a dream in itself but when the saxophone breaks in at 4:03 like a ray of sun on a cloudy day, then, the word eargasm takes all his meaning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvXylEXsHN8
…Ride On…Mary Coughlan version…
Picture the scene…
it’s 1984 and young Bertie is about to have his heart broken for the first time
But first… the slow set
Sade – Smooth Operator
https://youtu.be/4TYv2PhG89A
Bowie – Young Americans
https://youtu.be/KSHY1_ux8rs
My fave Bowie song.
Always crashing in the same car is mine :)
There’s so many… Bowie, Van Morrison, Bruce… even Dire Straits.
But no, we shall go with 1981’s Who Can It Be Now? From Men At Work.
https://youtu.be/SECVGN4Bsgg
Aint nobody here but us chickens https://open.spotify.com/track/4sx8TuJIxTlw5gonFfElJB?si=l5y_fJajRqeiCMxyN9GEBA
Has to be one of the best examples of the lairy the sax solo i can think of.
No brainer:
Thin Lizzy: Dancing in the Moonlight #blackeyedphilo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1tQwF410qw
Dancing in the Moonlight: Thin Lizzy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1tQwF410qw
Howard Jones -“Pearl in The Shell”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnWKkxyx-qI
Davey Payne played Sax on the track (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_Payne)
Now you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqDZOekUDzE
Tina…
or Fela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeH4xziCHQs
The Champs – Tequila
OR
Guru Josh – Infinity
Gotta be Dexys…no not that one, this one – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQO2wEJefjM
Close second, this one, – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OopMbW0sEPw – deserves it for the video alone
The Cure – A Night Like This. Reminds me of Dublin in the 80s.
Oh ho-ho I want to change it all…
David Bowie’s Starman.
That song had such a profound effect on me in so many ways.
The sax solo and Mick Ronson’s stellar, yet fairly simple, guitar solo too.
I don’t need no player to hear this timeless classic in my head
Let all the children boogie…..
It has to be Gerry Rafferty Baker Street, great song for a Fri evening
The ultimate Sax Man – Tim Capello from The Lost Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuwcINDHnQ
The Pogues Fiesta
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYI9t-I6qo
Nervous Man Nervous by the late, great Big J McNeely.
He was still playing up his death last year, aged 91. I saw him a few years ago backed by a full band, in a bright red three piece suit and matching hat. Pure old school R’n’B.
The most popular image of him from the 50s, lying on his back on the stage palying with people pounding the stage to the music sums it up well
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlrFy6epHTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8VPmtyLqSY
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto (feat. Astrud Gilberto) – The Girl From Ipanema
Damn right. This thread needs more Jazz.
Here’s a better video
https://youtu.be/sVdaFQhS86E
Love the sax solo in Louis Prima’s “Just a Gigolo/ I Aint Got Nobody”, have to say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-EzZPzCv8
Jimmy Sax
https://youtu.be/bsBbXTyvkeE
Flaps
The Commitments, Mustang Sally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_25Hpf3EOyU
Some other great songs on that soundtrack with saxophone
Of course, there is always Homer…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21x7KObESV0
As an absolute sax-manic I say-
Lulu- The man who sold the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyFAnA9oPRE
It’d have to be Johnny Logan singing Shay Healy’s ‘What’s Another Year’…
https://youtu.be/AJ2jDdOfRwM
with Colin Tully on sax.
Starts with a sax, and has that sax solo kicking in at 2.30!
The song that scored Ireland its second Eurovision victory – words that we shall never hear again: ‘Ireland – Eurovision – Victory’
+V
Great shout
One for the wee small hours.
John Coltrane on Blue in Green from Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue
https://youtu.be/svbC380XfoQ
Expertly endorsed by someone who knows their stuff.
https://youtu.be/-jHzdMo-YCc
King Curtis – Whiter Shade of Pale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8d36w_ijw
Surprisingly absent thus far but here’s just the thing for a Friday evening.
Bruce and the E Street Band – Born to Run. Sax by Clarence Clemons.
https://youtu.be/IxuThNgl3YA
Any tune that Clarence played on is a piece of art. The man was a genius!
If it’s not a love supreme then it’s the Benny hill theme tune isn’t it?
I posted ‘Trane on Kind of Blue but it vanished.
Benny Hill it is so.
For those amongst us who do not know it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
:)
I would like to take a moment and acknowledge one of our own, the wonderful Barry Cluskey, saxophonist extrordinaire! Through my childhood and early adulthood he taught me to love the sax, as he played in the local pubs, bars and clubs around where I grew up. A great supporter of local events, and a regular at the Cork Jazz Festival, the man was a genius.
I tried to find a decent clip of him on sax, but the best I found was this of him on clarinet just chilling in the pub down the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyESsvXQBQ
Hah! Timing!
Just found this gem of Barry on sax with Loudest Whisper – King Bee Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zZi1lmvyv4
Can I post my holiday pics from South Africa now?
Only if they include a sax :)
Just in case you thought I was joking, or being insensitive, there is some wonderful South African jazz out there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PELNB3ivwj4
Some Friday funk
September – Earth, Wind & Fire
https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk
Butthole Surfers – Negro Observer
https://youtu.be/EKBSfUX_lYo
Ween – Your Party
https://youtu.be/7ZxlCmZdXtE
Deerhunter – Coronado
https://youtu.be/UMO1sMPmtQU
Woulda said that spooky hymn the grim tide of Thatcherism lifting all boats, The Specials’ Ghost Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4
but apparently that’s a trombone; well, sorry for my tin ear. But for something of the same wry-mouthed watch on a collapsing society, how’s about Renato Carosone’s Tu Vuò Fa’ L’Americano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqlJwMFtMCs
I particularly like the ladylike way the double bass player pushes his bandmate out of his face. Yes, and the saxes.
Dire Straits, Your Latest Trick https://youtu.be/AKiVttFnqkY (…Wait for it!)
I know it’s too late but Sorrow by Bowie.
https://youtu.be/AkfmPmaTnKg
Look at the goddam moves on the guy playing the sax solo..!
Will you? Hazel o Connor…
https://youtu.be/dstqbTElLm0