RIP David Sanborn

[TigerVols]

Made the sax as cool as anyone...

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[BitterYoungMatador2]

There was a summer in the 1980s where that dude was everywhere. Had his own show, sat in with Letterman's band. Everywhere.

RIP

 

[Inky_Wretch]

fork cancer. RIP.

 

[swingline]

College dorms were full of his music.

 

[DanOregon]

I mean, all those sax solos in the '80s? I don't know if there were half as many without Sanborn playing them or inspiring them.

He made the saxophone cool, before Kenny G, Rob Lowe (in St. Elmo's Fire) and Bill Clinton made it uncool again.

 

[Slacker]

Man, what a shame. Best jazz sax I've ever heard,
and so much more. RIP, dude. I know it wasn't just about jazz ...

At the same time, perhaps as a result of some unhappy encounters with jazz gatekeepers, Sanborn maintained a certain humility about his place in the music. "If push comes to shove," he told NPR's Scott Simon in 2008, "I would describe myself more as coming out of the blues/R&B side of the spectrum. But I mean, if you play the saxophone, you certainly can't escape the influence of jazz. So it's not that I necessarily don't, you know, want to be called a jazz musician. It's just that I — you know, I don't know if that's totally accurate."

 

[Slacker]

Man, what a shame. Best jazz sax I've ever heard,
and so much more. RIP, dude. I know it wasn't just about jazz ...

From his NPR obit, which of course won't load here ...

At the same time, perhaps as a result of some unhappy encounters with jazz gatekeepers, Sanborn maintained a certain humility about his place in the music. "If push comes to shove," he told NPR's Scott Simon in 2008, "I would describe myself more as coming out of the blues/R&B side of the spectrum. But I mean, if you play the saxophone, you certainly can't escape the influence of jazz. So it's not that I necessarily don't, you know, want to be called a jazz musician. It's just that I — you know, I don't know if that's totally accurate."

 

[garrow]

Also guested on innumerable albums by other artists and also had a cameo in Scrooged.

 

[Kato]

I kind of forgot how much David Sanborn there was in my life as a teenager. But then again, in the late 80s, I was in high school jazz band and watched David Letterman pretty much every night.

 

[misterbc]

His Wikipedia page documents an astonishing number of collaborations. I'm not particularly into jazz, although I love the drumming, but the sax players are always incredible. The amazing thing is that he started playing as rehabilitation from contracting polio.