Saxophone Kings of Jazz The saxophone is a new instrument to the musical world in terms of time In the specific realm of jazz is the ring leader of the genre with the close second being the trumpet Can you really argue with the fact that the sax has changed jazz in it s entirty from swing to bop to samba to fusion and modern Charlie Parker revolutionized jazz by playing the sax with a classical ensamble Stan Getz led the short but very important samba movement with his smooth style and grace on his tenor sax Michael Brecker who recntly died of a rare form of Lukemia i think was a beast of a player that revolutionized modern jazz And then there s Jimmy Picket from Tower of Power who brought sax to the funk style I rest my case on the issue