Great non-guitar solos?

RandallFlagg

Inspired by @RichAC post about great guitar solos in non guitar songs, how about great non-guitar solos in any type of song?

A couple of my faves:

Keane - Bedshaped. The huge U2 guitar like, delay laden, synth solo starts at 3m 35s. Turned up loud I think it's incredibly emotive and fits the song perfectly.



Chet Baker's trumpet solo on Elvis Costello & The Attractions Shipbuilding. I know Elvis Costello has gone on record to say that Punch The Clock is not his favourite album by some way and he rues adding delay to Chet Baker's solo but it's a lovely solo and I love the album.

Solo at 3m 00s

viz

Simply The Best sax solo

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Clarence's epic sax solo in Jungleland (starts 3:57)

stimpsonslostson

Clutch- Electric Worry
(Eric Oblander on harmonica)

stimpsonslostson

Rancid- Maxwell Murders

Matt Freeman on bass

stimpsonslostson

Deep Purple have lots of good organ solos. 
Child in time is great. 

normula1

The organ break in Don't dream it's over

Grumpyrocker

Jon Lord the thread. 

Highway Star is particularly great. 

bertie

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

Clarence's epic sax solo in..........
 

Independence Day  -    not big, not long just very haunting and a perfect fit


not a solo, but an intro............. Rick Wakeman organ intro to the Strawbs  "Hangman and the Papist"

timmypix

I have a thing for sax solos in metal/proggy contexts.

Sax solo here starting around 2:55; helps that it's followed by one of my favourite guitar solo entrances ever:



And another chilled one here:



And finally, this lovely interlude from Tesseract's second album:

english_bob

All four solos on Miles Davis' "So What".
(Davis on Trumpet, John Coltrane on sax, "Cannonball" Adderley on sax, Bill Evans on piano).



Supremely melodic and memorable. You can sing along with pretty much the whole song (in private).

Winny_Pooh

So much Jazz we could draw on

But
Keeping it simple

Lovely melodic accordion solo at 1:25

MrTee

Flight of the concords - robots. Binary solo (3:15)

thecolourbox

I'll go for an obvious one - Riders on the Storm by the Doors. Love playing that whole song on my piano

axisus

Steven Wilson's Regret#9 has a killer Guthrie solo to close it, but I absolutely adore Adam Holzman's lead in keys solo, a thing of beauty. The track is one of the all time great instrumentals for me

scrumhalf

Pretty much anything with Graham Bond on the Hammond. 

Sporky

The keyboard solo in Jump. So much better - and a better fit for the song - than the pointless wankfest guitar solo. 

Cols

John Paul Jones’s bass solo in The Lemon Song...

https://youtu.be/8gWbKAcuzN8

...and Flea’s bass solo in Aeroplane.

https://youtu.be/jOZcM5VPevI 

PhilKing

Andy Fraser's bass solo in Mr Big (3:36 is the start)

guitars4you

Steely Dan FM - great sax solo - also has a guitar solo and there are two different versions of the out take - But I love the sax solo in this

No shortage of great songs with sax/trumpet solos and probably to many to mention, so for now FM is my favourite 

Have to get back to you on great solos from Fender Rhodes and Hammond organ - again many great options 

breakstuff

Got to be the sax solo on Will You by Hazel O'Connor.