A Few Good Solos to Start By Andrew Bishop
Trumpet Miles Davis on “Freddie Freeloader” from Kind of Blue Chet Baker on “The More I See You” from It Could Happen to You
Alto Saxophone Art Pepper on “Birk’s Works” from Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section Cannonball Adderley on “Miles” from Miles Davis’ “Milestones” Cannonball on “Never Will I Marry” from “The Cannonball Quintet Featuring Nancy Wilson
Tenor Saxophone Dexter Gordon on “Second Balcony Jump” from Go John Gilmore on “A Call for All Demons” from Sun Ra’s Sun Song John Coltrane on “Stella by Starlight” from Miles Davis’ Miles 1958 Sonny Rollins on “The Way You Look Tonight” from “Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins” Hank Mobley (anything on the recording Soul Station, “Remember” is a good one… Wayne Shorter on “Speedball” from Lee Morgan’s The Gigolo
Baritone Saxophone Gerry Mulligan on “My Old Flame” Harry Carney on “Take the A Train” with Strings
Flute Rahsaan Roland Kirk on “Serenade for the Cuckoo” from Serenade for the Cuckoo Rahsaan Roland Kirk on “Fly Me to the Moon” from Out of the Afternoon (Roy Haynes) Frank Wess on “Segue in C” on First Time
Clarinet Lester Young on “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” from Laughing to Keep From Crying Lester Young on “I Never Knew” Jimmy Strong on “West End Blues”
Pianists Wynton Kelly on “Freddie the Freeloader” see above Sonny Clark on “Blues in the Night”
Guitar Wes Montgomery on “No Blues” from Wynton Kelly Trio Smokin’ at the Half Note Django Reinhardt on “Swing 42”
Bass Anything Paul Chambers or Ray Brown
Drums Max Roach on “Blue Seven” from Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus