Up front I'll say I don't know a darn about sax playing techniques, but I do know what I like. So, for what it's worth, here's who I was brought up on. First, via Jimmy Smith albums, Stanley Turrentine and Lou Donaldson. A drummer friend of mine met him on a Jazz Cruise he was doing a few years ago. He said Donaldson still had the chops and he must have been in his eighties then. Secondly, I always liked the sound of Ben Webster - such distinctive sound and tone.

I also, way back in the mists of time, had an album of a guy called Curtis Amy with another guy whose name now escapes me, but I always enjoyed that album.