Best Sax Jazz

Frank Morgan..."listen to the dawn"

There are many candidates here..The big round fat classic sound : Ben Webster,Coleman Hawkins, Scott Hamilton and Gerry Mulligan (he played baritone) lyrically: Stan Getz, Cannonball Adderly, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond (he's an alto guy) Then there is Coltrane all around and for some very cool, out stuff you could try Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy(alto and excellent bass clarinet and flute as well from him) Most of these guys pretty much played tenor exclusively. Too many to list and once again some great players are left off.

My favourite is Dexter Gordon's "Our Man in Paris". Sonny Rollins first Blue Note album is a close second (I forget the name ... I think it may just be called Sonny Rollins).
I have never liked Coltrane ... just not my thing.

You've got to have a Gerry Mulligan album also. Bari sax is just a fabulous instrument ... I'm a tenor player, and if a good bari didn't cost more than my car I'd have a bari too.

I'd like to add Gato Barbieri, Chapter I,II,III and Caliente.

Lots of greats listed so far, here are a few I haven't seen listed:
Michael Blake
Arthur Blythe
Christer Bothen
Ralph Carney
George Cartwright
Thomas Chapin
Jean Derome
Jindra Dolansky (Uz Jsme Doma)
Marty Ehrlich (is this the same guy Frogman?)
Ellery Eskelin
Marty Fogel
Sonny Fortune
Chico Freeman
John Gilmore
Vinny Golia
Steve Grossman
Tom Guralnick
Rich Halley
Buck Hill
Michael Hornstein
David Jackson
Ed Jackson
Philip Johnston
Naruyoshi Kikuchi (Tipographica)
Frank Lowe
Michael Marcus
Steve Marcus
Kurt McGettrick
Randy McKean
Hafez Modirzadeh
Michael Moore
Bill Plake
Odean Pope
Michel Portal
Yannick Rieu
Sam Rivers
Florian Ross
Dave Slusser
John Tchicai
Kazutoki Umezu
Bobby Zankel
John Zorn (If this choice offends, check out Voodoo or some of the Masada discs).

Sorry if any of these are repeats. Alot of the above players (and probably hundreds more) are highly under appreciated, but (lucky for us) are doing great job of keeping an artform alive and growing.
Hey Sd, have you got a favorite Steve Lacy disc?