RIP David Sanborn

[Vandal]

Saxophonist David Sanborn, 6-time Grammy winner, has died at age 78

David Sanborn, whose keening cry on alto saxophone was as bright and steadfast as a lighthouse beacon during a career that spanned nearly 60 years and included collaborations with everyone from David Bowie to Stevie Wonder, died on Sunday in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 78.

According to an official statement, the cause was complications of prostate cancer, which he had been battling since 2018.

With a string of crossover hits in the 1970s and '80s, Sanborn set a sturdy template for the radio format known as smooth jazz, though he himself never warmed to the term. He had more than a dozen albums break into the Billboard 200, and won six Grammy awards — four of them in consecutive years during the mid-to-late '80s. Two of those winning albums — Straight to the Heart, a solo effort, and Double Vision, a collaboration with pianist Bob James — are cornerstones of the commercial genre often labeled contemporary jazz.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/13/12510067 ... -at-age-78

[littlebeast13]

I know when I used to watch Late Night with David Letterman a lot back in the early 90's (before he defected to CBS), Sanborn appeared quite frequently with Paul Schaefer's band. That's honestly the only place I'd ever heard his name before...

lb13

[BackInTex]

I know when I used to watch Late Night with David Letterman a lot back in the early 90's (before he defected to CBS), Sanborn appeared quite frequently with Paul Schaefer's band. That's honestly the only place I'd ever heard his name before...

lb13

You obviously were never a member of the Columbia House Record Club. He would show up regularly as one of the 10 or so recommended albums. That is how I know of a lot of music groups that I couldn't name one song from.