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A List of Famous Saxophonists with photos! These are musicians who are masters of their craft. While it is often the singers who claim all the fame, these musicians are famous in their own right. As time has past and music evolved, the list of musical instruments available has grown, especially with the advent of the digital age. While the vocalist may have his lyrics, it is the musicians behind him, who truly make the sound. After all, instrumentals are as popular as ever, but acappellas are few and far between. Best of all, with our modern recording technology, we will be able to enjoy these artists for centuries if not millennia!

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Career Began Albums Nationality
  1. 1

    Adolphe Sax

    Belgium
    Preferred Genre: Classical
  2. 2
    Jazz
    Larchmont
    Preferred Genre: Swing
  3. 3
    Big band, West coast jazz
    United States of America
    Al Cohn Quintet (feat. Bob Brookmeyer), True Blue, Silver Blue, Overtones, That Old Feeling, Cohn on the Saxophone, Tenor Conclave, The Natural Seven, Four Classic Albums Plus, Al Cohn's America, Four Brass, One Tenor... Al Cohn, Al Cohn Meets Al Porcino, Four Classic Albums Plus (disc 2), Mr. Music, Standards of Excellence, Broadway More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  4. 4
    Rhythm and blues, Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz
    Cleveland Heights
    Goin' Home, Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings, Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings, At Slug's Saloon, Volume 1, At Slug's Saloon, Volume 2, Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village, Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe, Truth Is Marching In, Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Volume 2, Holy Ghost, The First Recordings, The First Recordings, Volume 2, Ghosts, Slug's Saloon, Bells / Prophecy, The Last Album, My Name Is Albert Ayler, Witches & Devils, Bells, Spirits Rejoice, New York Eye And Ear Control, The Copenhagen Tapes, Spiritual Unity, Lörrach / Paris 1966, The Dedication Series, Volume VII: The Village Concerts, The Dedication Series, Volume VII: The Village Concerts, Black Revolt, Prophecy, Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Volume 1, Live on the Riviera, Albert Smiles With Sunny, In Greenwich Village, Nuits de la Fondation Maeght 1970, The Hilversum Session, Love Cry, The Impulse Story, New Grass, Reevaluations: The Impulse Years, Spirits, Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 1 More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  5. 5

    Albert Nicholas

    Jazz
    Albert's Blues
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  6. 6

    Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis

    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  7. 7

    Alfred Gallodoro

    Jazz
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz, Classical
  8. 8

    Alto Reed

    Preferred Genre: Rock
  9. 9
    Alternative rock, Alternative metal
    Little Rock
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Smooth jazz, Jazz, R&B
  10. 10
    Alternative rock, Indie rock
    Leeds
    England
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  11. 11

    Andrew Woolfolk

    Preferred Genre: R&B
  12. 12
    Rock music, Rhythm and blues, Glam rock, Art rock
    Resolving Contradictions, In Search of Eddie Riff
    Preferred Genre: Rock
  13. 13
    Post-bop
    Warminster
    Rhythm Method, Soft on the Inside, Delivery Suite, Movements in Colour, Songs With Legs (feat. Carla Bley & Steve Swallow), Introductions in the Dark, In Co-Motion, Nocturnal Tourist, Learning to Wave, Andy Sheppard, Dancing Man & Women, Movements in Colour More
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  14. 14
    Alternative rock, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Soul music, Punk rock, Funk, Reggae, Ska, Funk metal, Ska punk, Spoken word More
    California
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Rock
  15. 15
    Jazz, Avant-garde, Opera, Free jazz
    Chicago
    Willisau (Quartet) 1991 Live, Creative Orchestra Music 1976, 4 (Ensemble) Compositions 1992, One in Two - Two in One, 19 [Solo] Compositions, 1988, For Alto, Composition No. 165 (For 18 Instruments), Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986, Seven Standards, Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986, Beyond Quantum, Saxophone Improvisations Series F, 3 Compositions of New Jazz, Solo (Milan) 1979, Three Compositions of New Jazz, Willisau (Quartet) 1991 - Studio/Live, Birth and Rebirth, Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989, Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance), Four Compositions (GTM) 2000, Donna Lee, In the Tradition, Volume 2, Six Monk's Compositions, Quartet (London) 1985, Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983, Composition No. 169 + (186 + 206 + 214), Performance (Quartet) 1979, Dortmund (Quartet) 1976, Quartet (Birmingham) 1985, Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000, Charlie Parker Project 1993, Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984, Anthony Braxton, Six Compositions (GTM) 2001, Six Monk's Compositions, Eugene, 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006, 23 Standards Quartet, Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Volume 2 More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  16. 16
    Jazz
    Goin' Home, Poem for Malcolm, The House I Live In, The Cry of My People, Mariamar, Lady Bird, On This Night, Looking at Bird, The Way Ahead, Black Gipsy, Steam, Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio: Conversations, Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble, Day Dream, Live at the Totem, Volume 2: 'Round About Midnight, Live in San Francisco, Archie Shepp & The New York Contemporary Five, Fire Music, On Green Dolphin Street, Montreux Two, Trouble in Mind, On This Night, California Meeting: Live on Broadway, Attica Blues Big Band - Live At The Palais Des Glaces, Attica Blues Big Band - Live at the Palais des Glaces, A Sea of Faces, Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco, Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones, The Long March, Attica Blues, Live at the Totem, Volume 1: Things Have Got to Change, Blasé / Live at the Pan-African Festival, Yasmina, a Black Woman / Poem for Malcolm, Four for Trane, Montreux One, Stream, The Magic of Ju-Ju, Tray of Silver, Archie Shepp, Kwanza, The Impulse Story, Les Génies Du Jazz, VI 06 - Archie Shepp (The Free Jazz Tenorman), True Blue, Blasé, Yasmina, a Black Woman, The Way Ahead, Mama Too Tight, For Losers, There's a Trumpet in My Soul, Pitchin Can, Things Have Got to Change, Coral Rock, Rufus, Archie Shepp - Bill Dixon Quartet, Steam, Doodlin', Body and Soul, U-Jaama, Jazz a Confronto 27, Bijou, Ballads For Trane, Live in San Francisco, I Know About the Life, Gemini, True Blue, The Cry of My People, Fire Music, Phat Jam in Milano, Passport to Paradise, Little Red Moon, Down Home New York More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  17. 17
    Swing, Bebop, Soul jazz, Jump blues, Texas blues
    Cobb and His Mob in Concert, Smooth Sailing, Party Time, Live at Sandy's, Sizzlin', More Party Time More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  18. 18
    Bebop, Post-bop, Hard bop, Cool jazz, West coast jazz
    Gardena
    The Trip, The Way It Was!, No Limit, Besame Mucho, The Savoy Recordings - Part 1, Stardust, The Art of Pepper, Volume 3, Original Jazz Classics, Among Friends, Mucho Calor, Roadgame, Art Pepper - Straight Life, The Trip, Surf Ride, The Hollywood All-Star Sessions, Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, The Art Peppet Quartet, Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics, The Complete Galaxy Recordings, Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Young Art, The Best of..., Complete Straight Ahead Sessions, Tokyo Debut, Landscape, Intensity, Friday Night at the Village Vanguard, Modern Art, Complete Surf Club Sessions, The Early Show, The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions, Live in Tokyo '79: Besame Mucho, Gettin' Together, Art Pepper + Eleven, Playboys, Laurie's Choice, A Night in Tunisia, Winter Moon, Living Legend, One September Afternoon, I'll Remember April (live at Foothill College), Live at the Village Vanguard, Saturday Night At The Village Vanguard, Live in Tokyo '79: Landscape, Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard, Arthur's Blues, Complete Discovery-Savoy Master Takes, Gettin' Together!, Intensity, Art Pepper + Eleven, Winter Moon, Warner Jazz Les Incontournables, Landscape, Smack Up, Mosaic Select 15, Art Pepper Today, So in Love, Straight Life, Popo, Those Kenton Days, Art Pepper Today, Discoveries, The Artistry of Pepper, The Savoy Recordings - Part 2 More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  19. 19
    Jazz, Post-bop
    Los Angeles
    Elaborations, Blythe Spirit, The Grip, Bush Baby, Calling Card, Lenox Avenue Breakdown, In the Tradition, Metamorphosis, Hipmotism, Retroflection, Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk, Illusions More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Free Jazz / Jazz
  20. 20

    Barbara Thompson

    Songs From the Center of the Earth
    United Kingdom, England
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  21. 21
    La Note bleue, Jazz in Paris: Jazz sur Seine, New York Romance, Moshi, Sanctuary, French Ballads, Un témoin dans la ville More
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  22. 22
    Jazz
    Kansas City
    For the Guv'nor, See You at the Fair, Ben and Sweets, Big Ben Time, Ben Webster, Until Tonight, Storyville Masters of Jazz, Volume 5: Ben Webster, Plays Duke Ellington, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Ben's Blues, The Verve Years, Soulville, The Warm Moods, Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson, Music for Loving: Ben Webster With Strings, Confirmation, The Chronological Classics: Ben Webster 1953-1954, Stormy Weather, Jazz 'Round Midnight, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Jazz Masterpieces, At the Renaissance, Complete 1953 Leader Studio Sessions, Ballads and Blues, Ben Webster and MJQ - An Exceptional Encounter, Ben Webster for Lovers, Baden 1972, See You at the Fair, The Holland Sessions, Plays Ballads, Ben Webster and Associates, The Soul of Ben Webster, Frog: 1956-1962, There Is No Greater Love, Verve Jazz Masters 43: Ben Webster, Cadillac Slim, The Horn, Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, Cotton Tail, The Best of Sexy Sax, My Romance, Ben Webster's Finest Hour, Dig Ben! (Disc 8) More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Classical
  23. 23

    Bennie Maupin

    Jazz fusion, Post-bop
    The Jewel in the Lotus, Slow Traffic to the Right, Slow Traffic to the Right, The Jewel in the Lotus More
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  24. 24
    Jazz, Swing, Big band
    An Introduction to Benny Carter: His Best Recordings 1929-1940, Jazz Giant, Black Bottom, Complete Edition, Volume 3 (1933-1934), Volume 8: 1937, Cookin' at Carlos I, Legends, More Cookin', The Complete Benny Carter on Keynote, Billy Eckstine Sings With Benny Carter, Complete Edition, Volume 1 (1928-1931), Songbook, Volume II, In the Mood for Swing, Elegy in Blue, Cosmopolite: The Oscar Peterson Verve Sessions, All That Jazz: Live at Princeton, Montreux 77, Further Definitions, Swingin' The '20s, Swingin' the 20s, A Gentleman and His Music, Additions to Further Definitions, Love for Sale, Americans Swinging in Paris, Swinging the Blues, Symphony in Riffs, The Chronological Classics: Benny Carter 1954, Songbook, King More
    Preferred Genre: Jazz
  25. 25
    Bebop, Hard bop
    Gettin' With It, Benny Golson's New York Scene, Groovin' With Golson, Tune in Turn on: to the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties, Gone With Golson, I'm Always Dancin' to the Music, New Time, New 'Tet, Tenor Legacy, Terminal 1, I Remember Miles More
    United States of America
    Preferred Genre: Jazz

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