Your Top 5 Sax Players?

The Five rule is masochistic and it makes otherwise highly deluxe members (Ejlif for example) commit horrible crimes of omission. Anyway here are a few more that shouldn't ought to be left out:

Ken Vandermark
Scott Rosenberg (Rosenberg's Red/Owe)
Tom Guralnick (Pitchin')
Anthony Braxton (Start w/ 8 Standards on Barking Hoop)
John Gilmore
Jean Derome
Thomas Chapin
Dewey Redman
David Jackson (Van der Graaf)
Ned Rothenberg
Kurt McGettrick, Motorhead Sherwood, Ian Underwood (FZ)
Rich Halley
Jindra Dolansky (Uz Jsme Doma)
Dirk Bruinsma (Blast)
Charlie Kohlhase
Sabin Hudon (Miriodor)
Odean Pope
Johannes Pappert (Kraan)
James White
Archie Shepp
Pierre Labbe
Louis Sclavis (usually clarinet/ sometimes sax)
Yochk'o Seffer

michael brecker,phil woods,don potter,jan garberek,coltrane.potter is my favorite to this date though!

I agree with Bombaywalla, that Art Pepper belongs among the all time best, along with the living legend Charles Lloyd.

It's also nice to have so much new talent to enjoy like:
Chris Potter, Eric Alexander, Vincent Herring and Steve
Slagle.

stan sulzman,paul mc,candless,stan turin!dgoosen nice choice of none con-ventional! so many!!!!

Wow! Not an easy task...but if I had a gun put to my head this is what I'd say:

Of those I've heard live and in no particular order:
David Murray, James Carter, Pharoah Saunders, Stan Getz and Sonny Rollins

Of those I've heard only on record:
Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane