Many and important, is the answer.
There are many bands that represent Rock/Metal music and that use this musical instrument.
Celebrating World Saxophone Day on November 6, is a good way to see that this musical instrument is not only used in jazz and blues!
The saxophone has a prominent place in many favorite Rock / Metal songs …
A small sample is the following
- The Doors – Touch Me (1968)
- King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man (1969)
- The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar (1971)
- The Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein (1972)
- Aerosmith – Same Old Song and Dance (1974)
- Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (1975)
- Pink Floyd – Shine on You Crazy Diamond (1975)
- Thin Lizzy – Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)(1977)
- Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street (1978)
- Black Sabbath – Breakout (1978)
- George Thorogood & The Destroyers – Bad to the Bone (1982)
- Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick (1985)
- Mr. Bungle – Carousel (1991)
- Atheist – Mother Man (1991)
- Dream Theater – Another Day (1992)
- Cynic – Veil of Maya (1993)
- Mad Season – Long Gone Day (1995)
- Incubus – Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) (1997)
- Carpathian Forest – Cold Murderous Music (2003)
- Avenged Sevenfold – A Little Piece of Heaven (2007)
- Minsk – Ceremony ekStasis (2007)
- Ephel Duath – Breed (2009)
- Deerhunter – Coronado (2010)
- Aenaon – Black Nerve (2011)
- Napalm Death – Everyday Pox (2012)
- Ihsahn – The Eagle and the Snake (2012)
- TesseracT – Calabi Yau (2013)
- Shining – Last Day (2015)
- Enslaved – Hiindsiight (2017)
- Nine Inch Nails – Over and Out (2018)
- Rivers of Nihil – The Silent Life (2018)
- Ghost – Miasma (2018)
- Amorphis – Daughter of Hate (2018)