Arashi no Saxophone

Arashi no Saxophone (Saxophone Storm) is a name related to several songs that serve as theme to Iori Yagami.

While Esaka and Tears were created to mirror Kyo Kusanagi's music taste, Arashi no Saxophone was created to mirror Iori's music taste. All of these songs have a prominant use of the saxophone, as the name says.

Arashi no Saxophone
The first Arashi no Saxophone worked as theme for Iori Yagami, Billy Kane and Eiji Kisaragi, but the music director had Iori Yagami and their stage in mind while composing the music.

The song, as the name says, has a prominent use of the saxophone, but there's also a piano, a bass guitar and an electric in the background and there's also a very "jazzy and funky" drum.

The arranged version also has some vocals (mainly singing "Let me see you dance so far!), two piano solos and a flute solo, reminding the fast funk songs of the 70s.

Arashi no Saxophone 2
The second version of Arashi no Saxophone is basically a revamp of the first. The major difference is a bigger use of the electric guitar. It mixes jazz, funk and hard rock.

This song has been strongly associated by fans to Vice and Mature, and was also used in The King of Fighters '98 and The King of Fighters 2002.

Cool JAM (Arashi no Saxophone 3)
The third version of Arashi no Saxophone is titled "Cool Jam". The major difference is a bigger use of the bass guitar (the instrument Iori plays in his band).

The arranged version has more saxophone solo, and also added an organ solo and some vocals (the line "Let's see it!", shout with joy), while the bass guitar was toned down a bit, but still having its own solos.