What happened to sax in music?

Written for Kurrent Music
Published September 21st 2016

Candy Dulfer

Candy Dulfer

Do you also have a reoccurring theme in your weeks? A topic that just keeps coming back in various conversations or in whatever else that happens in the week? Mine is an instrument this week. It’s the saxophone.

It all started with hearing one of those typically 80s songs on the radio, in which the saxophone plays a huge part. No, it wasn’t even “Careless Whisper” by George Michael, but that would be one of the tracks that would come to mind, wouldn’t it? And otherwise, it would probably be ”Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty. But it was just one of the many other forgotten songs from that era that rode the wave of those sexy saxophone sounds.

Hearing the song just reminded me of the change music seems to have gone through. Horn sections played more of a part in pop music from the 80s and 90s. In particular, the saxophone had an uplift in the 90s with Curtis Stigers’ “I Wonder Why”, Take That’s “A Million Love Songs” and some of the remakes of 80s hits.

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