Great non-guitar solos?

blobb

Jimmy Jastings is Pye Hastings brother. He's a jazz sax / flute player by trade but Pye roped him into appearing on various Caravan albums over the years as a sort of unofficial '5th' band member. He's brilliant, as a good example of his 'sound' try this, Love Song With Flute form their debut album:

Flute solo at 2:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2GwOyE3RWE

idiotwindow

I don't think it's been mentioned but there's a fine sax solo in Total Control by The Motels. Saxophone seemed to be a thing with new wave bands around this time. 

DuploLicks

DuploLicks said:

No Xylophone solos as yet? 

Let’s fix that with Booker T & the MGs, Soul Limbo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GdvFiE2R5I

starts at 1.10

Rumours that astronomer Patrick Moore used to play it at the Royal Astrological Society Christmas parties have not been verified however he did influence Brian May. 

More Xylophone action with Roy Ayers on Running Away (3m 20s)

Stuckfast

Muscle Museum by Muse has an interesting solo, which is Matt Bellamy singing through a guitar amp.

RocknRollDave

Four pages and no mention of the trombone solo in I’m Coming Out?!
Amateurs, the lot of you!

Offset

Most of Edgar Winter's 'Frankenstein'.

Offset

Harp solo on "I'll Go Crazy" by Johnny Mars. Or pretty much anything else by the great man.

scrumhalf

Pretty much anything Ray Manzarek did with The Doors. 

Arfashandi

breakstuff said:

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

god yes. still puts a chill up my spine when the sax fades and then starts again

bobacco

Anything by Ruth Underwood. 

rlw

TOAD      The definitive non-guitar based solo

or the drum/organ solo on In A Gadda Da Vida - starts at around 6.10 but if you've never heard the whole thing do it now....

Perfect for chilling out to.

PhilW1

Not a band I'm into but I've always loved the piano break on this

stufisher

Late to the party as usual but Candy Dulfer playing 'Lily' live:

Rocker

Just about any Planxty song that the late great Liam Og O’Flynn played an uileann pipes solo on.  Far too many to mention by name....

Offset

Jim Lea's violin solo on Slade's 'Coz I Luv You'.

Rocker

The whistle solo on this rendition of the West's Awake:

Emp_Fab

John Beck's keyboard solo in Sleeping Satellite...  (@02:47)





Joey DeFrancesco's mind blowing extended Hammond masterpiece here:-  (@06:42)

distressed

Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right

Marimba solo at 1:50

HAL9000

Litterick said:

Eight bars of piano on Dr Feelgood's Down at the Doctor's.

Also, eight bars of piano on John Cage’s 4.33 ;-)

jdgm

Off the top of my head - 

Little Walter  -  "Blue Midnight" or Muddy Waters'  "I Just Want To Make Love To You" or many others.

Elvin Jones and Tony Williams - almost any solo by either of these.

Dennis Chambers and Sheila E on "Pharoah's Jig" by Tom Coster.

John Surman - most of "Private City", "The Road To St Ives", and many more.

Sonny Fortune on Miles Davis's "Agartha" and "Pangaea".

Wis for Dick Morrissey - a great, great player and much missed.