This here is one of the most beautiful and evocative sax lines for me (and, no, not because of the Purple connection, it's just a very beautiful song, Tommy was good at writing and singing those, I always say that without his drug habit and in the hands of a right management, he could have become another Peter Frampton) at 02:24:
Courtesy of Norma Jean Bell who came from Frank Zappa I believe to Tommy's band, becoming very much a focal point.
It's not technically awesome sax playing or anything, it's just a very pretty, even pastoral, doubletracked/harmonized melody, but (wo)man does it stick! If she came up with the melody, then she should have received a writer's co-credit for it.
That's Reggie McBride (ex-Rare Earth) on bass, the man oozed groove, he played on all songs of Private Eyes, Bolin's final (and best) solo album.