Top 10 Guest Jazz Soloists on Hit Pop Records


These are the favorite solos, not necessarily the favorite songs. Note also that this category rules out instances in which the jazz soloist was a full-fledged band-member (such as Branford Marsalis and Kenny Kirkland with Sting) and performances only available as bootlegs (like Ornette Coleman jamming with the Grateful Dead).
  1. Phil Woods: "Doctor Wu" from Katy Lied by Steely Dan
  2. Earl Hines: "Diddy Wah Diddy" from Paradise and Lunch by Ry Cooder
  3. Herbie Hancock: "As" from Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder
  4. Teddy Wilson and Zoot Sims: "Harpo's Blues" from Phoebe Snow by Phoebe Snow
  5. Pat Metheny: "Harbor Lights" from Harbor Lights by Bruce Hornsby
  6. Sonny Rollins: "Waiting on a Friend" from Tattoo You by the Rolling Stones
  7. Branford Marsalis: "Eyes of the World" from Without a Net by the Grateful Dead
  8. Freddie Hubbard: "Zanzibar" from 52nd Street by Billy Joel
  9. Wayne Shorter: "The End of the Innocence" from The End of the Innocence by Don Henley
  10. Ron Carter: "Certainly" from Baduizm by Erykah Badu