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David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 alto
Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 with instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.

One of the most commercially successful American saxophonists to earn prominence since the 1980s, Sanborn is often identified with radio-friendly smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
.






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David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 alto
Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 with instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.

One of the most commercially successful American saxophonists to earn prominence since the 1980s, Sanborn is often identified with radio-friendly smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
. However, Sanborn has expressed a disinclination for both the genre itself and his association with it.

Biography


Early years

Sanborn was born in Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
 and grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri
Kirkwood, Missouri

Kirkwood is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in St. Louis County, Missouri, Missouri. As of 2006, the city population was 26,936. The...
. He suffered from polio in his youth, and began playing the saxophone on a physician's advice to strengthen his weakened chest muscles and improve his breathing. Alto saxophonist Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford

Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an United States rhythm and blues, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter....
, at the time a member of Ray Charles
Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
' band, was an early and lasting influence on Sanborn. Sanborn performed with blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 musicians Albert King
Albert King

Albert King was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
 and Little Milton
Little Milton

Milton "Little Milton" Campbell, Jr. was a blues and Soul music vocalist and guitarist best known for his hits "Grits Ain't Groceries" and "We're Gonna Make It." Most popular in 1960s, he became one of the lesser known greats of the genre, combining traditional lyrical structure with smoother production....
 at the age of 14, and continued playing blues when he joined Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
's band in 1967. One of Sanborn's early guest appearances was on David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
's Young Americans
Young Americans (album)

Young Americans is an album by England singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in 1975.With this LP, Bowie made a sudden and jolting step in a new direction, shedding his glam rock past and exploring Philadelphia soul with backing from a very young Luther Vandross....
.

Although Sanborn is most associated with smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
, he explored the edges of free jazz
Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s.Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and '50s....
 in his youth, studying with saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz musician and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb ? if idiosyncrasy ? saxophone." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past thirty years....
 and Julius Hemphill
Julius Hemphill

Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone; less often soprano and tenor saxophones and flute....
. In 1993, he revisited this genre when he appeared on Tim Berne
Tim Berne

Tim Berne is an United States jazz saxophone player and composer.Though Berne was a music fan, he had no interest in playing a musical instrument until he was in college, when he purchased an alto saxophone....
's Diminutive Mysteries, dedicated to Hemphill.

Recordings

He has been a highly regarded session player since the late 1960s, playing with an array of well-known artists, such as Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style. Ferry came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Roxy Music, which enjoyed a highly successful career with three albums and ten single s entering the Top 40 charts in the United Ki...
, Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
, Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock music band The Who....
, Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
, Paul Simon
Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
, Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius

John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III was an United States jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player, as well as his command of varied musical styles including jazz, jazz fusion, funk, and jazz-funk....
, the Brecker Brothers
Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane,"[1] he won 15 Grammys as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007....
, Casiopea
Casiopea

was a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki joined the group, leaving Hidehiko out of Casiopea....
, David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
, Little Feat
Little Feat

Little Feat is an United States Rock music formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboard player Bill Payne in 1969 in music in Los Angeles, California....
, Tommy Bolin
Tommy Bolin

Thomas Richard 'Tommy' Bolin was an American-born guitarist best known for his work with Zephyr , The James Gang , Deep Purple , and his solo work....
, Bob James
Bob James (musician)

Bob James is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and Record producer....
, James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
, Al Jarreau
Al Jarreau

Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an United States singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop music, and R&B....
, George Benson
George Benson

George Benson is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop music and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me ", "Turn Your Love Around", "Inside Love", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among...
, Joe Beck
Joe Beck

Joe Beck was an United States guitarist who had been notable in jazz for more than 30 years.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
, Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway

Donny Edward Hathaway was an Grammy Award-winning United States soul music musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto " , Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His collaborations with Roberta Flack took him to the top of the charts and won him the Grammy Awa...
, Elton John
Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
, Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
, Carly Simon
Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
, Guru
Guru

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, Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt

Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
, Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
, Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett is an United States post bop jazz Saxophone and flutist. He was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 9, 1960. His father was a carpenter who played tenor saxophone as a hobby....
, Roger Waters
Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
, Steely Dan
Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
, Ween
Ween

Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class....
, The Eagles, the German group Nena
Nena

Nena is a singer and actress and the co-founder of the Neue Schule Hamburg, a school following the Sudbury school. She rose to international fame in 1984 with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons", whose English version is called "99 Red Balloons"....
, and Japanese
Japanese people

The are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan....
 pop star Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru

, better known by her stage name Utada in America and Europe, and also known by her fans as , is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter, arranger and record producer....
.

Sanborn has won numerous awards including Grammy awards for Voyeur (1982), Double Vision
Double Vision (Bob James and David Sanborn album)

Double Vision is a 1986 album by Bob James and David Sanborn....
 (1986) and the instrumental album Close Up (1988). In television, Sanborn is well-known for his sax solo in the theme song for the NBC hit drama L.A. Law
L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an United States television legal drama that ran from 1986 in television to 1994 in television. It was one of the most popular American television shows of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
. He has also done some film scoring for films such as Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon is a 1987 in film action film, the first in a film series of Cinema of the United States that were released in 1987, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, and Lethal Weapon 4, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of Los Angeles Police Department detectives....
 and Scrooged
Scrooged

Scrooged is a 1988 in film comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman ....
. In 1991 Sanborn recorded Another Hand, which the All Music Guide to Jazz described as a "return by Sanborn to his real, true love: unadorned (or only partly adorned) jazz" that "balanced the scales" against his smooth jazz material. The album, produced by Hal Willner
Hal Willner

Hal Willner is an United States music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles ....
, featured musicians from outside the smooth jazz scene, such as Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman....
, Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette is an United States jazz drummer, Piano, and composer. DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois. Besides the drums, he studied the piano, which he plays on several recordings....
, Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
, and Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot is an United States guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music....
. His more recent albums include Closer.

In 1994 Sanborn appeared in A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who

A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend, is a music event and later album documenting a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall in 1994....
, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock music band The Who....
 of English rock band The Who
The Who

The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
 in celebration of his fiftieth birthday. In 1994 a CD and a VHS video were issued, and in 1998 a DVD was released.

In 1995 he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True
The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True was a 1995 musical performance based on the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz . The Musical theatre#Introduction and definitions and Musical theatre#Introduction and definitions of the film were performed on stage at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund....
 a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund
Children's Defense Fund

The Children's Defense Fund is a child advocacy and research group, founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman. Their motto Leave No Child Behind indicates their mission to lobby on behalf of children in the federal government and the states, with the support of private/corporate donations and no government funding....
. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996.

Broadcasting activities

Sanborn has done both radio and television broadcasting. Since the late 1980s he has been a regular guest member of Paul Shaffer
Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, Order of Canada is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer currently the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman....
's band on Late Night with David Letterman
Late Night with David Letterman

Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 in television and went off the air in 1993 in television, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show with David Letterman on CBS....
. From 1988-89, he co-hosted a late-night TV music show on NBC with Jools Holland
Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland Order of the British Empire, Deputy Lieutenant is an England pianist, bandleader and television presenter. His work has involved him with many of the biggest names in the contemporary rock and popular music industry, such as Sting, David Gilmour, Tom Jones and Bono....
. The show, Night Music
Sunday Night

Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was a late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists....
, following producer Hal Willner
Hal Willner

Hal Willner is an United States music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles ....
's eclectic approach, drew Sanborn together with many famed musicians, such as Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
, Santana
Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
, Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren

Todd Harry Rundgren , is an United States musician, singer-songwriter and record producer....
, Youssou N'dour
Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the...
, Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.P?re Ubu may also refer to:* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu and Ubu Encha?n? ...
, Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is an United States songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, and the former husband of folk singer Kate McGarrigle....
, Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mary Margaret O'Hara

Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canada singer-songwriter and actress, who has been hailed as one of the greatest cult heroines in rock music despite having released very few of her own recordings....
, and Curtis Mayfield. During the 1980s and 1990s, Sanborn hosted a syndicated radio program, The Jazz Show with David Sanborn. He also recorded the theme song as well as several other songs for The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder.

More recent activities

In 2004, Sanborn was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame
St. Louis Walk of Fame

The St. Louis Walk of Fame honors List of famous people from Saint Louis who made contributions to culture of the United States. All inductees were either born in the Greater St....
. In 2006, he was featured in Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, or simply The Big Phat Band, is a Grammy-nominated 18-piece Jazz ensemble based in California and led by Gordon Goodwin....
's most recent album The Phat Pack (released on June 13) on the track "Play That Funky Music
Play That Funky Music

"Play That Funky Music" is a funk rock song written by Robert Parissi and recorded by the rock band Wild Cherry . The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 18, 1976....
", a remake of the Wild Cherry
Wild Cherry

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' hit in a big band style. Sanborn often performs at Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
's Blue Note
Blue Note (jazz clubs)

File:WSTM-CornFedChicks0034.JPGBlue Note is a chain of jazz clubs with restaurants. The first Blue Note opened in New York City's Greenwich Village in 1981, and is now considered one of the world's most famous jazz venues....
 venues in Nagoya, Osaka
Osaka

is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
, and Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
. He plays on the song "Your Party" on Ween
Ween

Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class....
's 2007 release La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha (album)

La Cucaracha is the tenth full-length album released by the alternative rock band Ween. The album was available streaming on the band's MySpace page October 16?October 19, 2007, and it was released on October 23....
. On April 8th 2007, Sanborn sat in with the Allman Brothers Band during their annual run at the Beacon Theater in New York City.

Discography


Albums

  • Taking Off (1975)
  • David Sanborn (1976)
  • Promise Me to the Moon (1977)
  • Heart to Heart (1978)
  • Hideaway (1979)
  • Voyeur (1980)
  • As We Speak (1981)
  • Backstreet
    Backstreet (David Sanborn album)

    Backstreet is a 1982 album by David Sanborn....
     (1982)
  • Straight to the Heart
    Straight to the Heart (David Sanborn album)

    Straight to the Heart is a 1984 album by David Sanborn. It won the 1985 Grammy for "Best Jazz Fusion Performance"....
     (1984)
  • Double Vision
    Double Vision (Bob James and David Sanborn album)

    Double Vision is a 1986 album by Bob James and David Sanborn....
    , with Bob James
    Bob James (musician)

    Bob James is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and Record producer....
     (1986)
  • A Change of Heart (1987)
  • Close Up (1988)
  • Another Hand (1991)
  • Upfront (1992)
  • Hearsay (1994)
  • The Best of David Sanborn (1994)
  • Pearls (1995)
  • Love Songs
    Love Songs (David Sanborn album)

    Love Songs is a compilation album of romantic songs by United States Alto saxophone saxophonist David Sanborn and was released in 1995 through Warner Bros....
     (1995)
  • Songs From the Night Before (1996)
  • Inside (1999)
  • The Essentials (2002)
  • Time Again (2003)
  • Closer (2005)
  • Here & Gone (2008)


DVDs

  • Legends: Live at Montreux 1997 (Released: 2005)
  • The Legends of Jazz: Showcase (Released: 2006)


Filmography


Actor/Host

  • The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995)
    Cast member in the TV musical
  • Scrooged (1988)
    Played a street musician
  • Sunday Night (1988)
    Was the host of this music show (later known as Michelob Presents Night Music)
  • Magnum P.I. (1986)
    Was     guest saxophonist in the episode L.A.
  • Stelle Sulla Citta (1983)


Himself

  • Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert (1999)
  • Burt Bacharach: One Amazing Night (1995)
    Performed     Wives and Lovers on this TV special
  • The Kennedys Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1996)
  • Forget Paris (1995)
  • Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who (1994)
  • Michael Kamen: Concert for Saxophone (1991)
  • Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1989)
  • One Trick Pony (1980)
  • The David Letterman Show
• 29 October 1993 • 15 October 1993 • 21 September 1993 • 10 September 1993 • 22 December 1988 • 10 November 1988 • 25 December 1987 • 7 October 1987 • 22 May 1986
  • Saturday Night Live (15 March 1980)


Composer

  • Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
  • Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
  • Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
  • Psycho III (1986)
  • Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
  • Stelle Sulla Citta (1983)
  • Moment to Moment (1975)


Musician

  • Forget Paris (1995)
  • Tequila Sunrise (1988)
  • Psycho III (1986)
  • Murphy's Romance (1985)
  • Saturday Night Live (1975)


Gear List

  • Saxophone
    Selmer Mark VI Alto Saxophone
    Manufacturer:     Selmer
    Location: Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....

    Retail Value (approx): $6,000 (US)
  • Reeds
    Vandoren V16 reeds
    Each reed lasts David roughly a week.
  • Mouthpiece
    A modified Dukoff D8 Metal Alto Sax Mouthpiece
  • Ligature
    A Harrison Ligature
  • Bell Jar
    To keep his reeds humidified without over-soaking them, David uses a bell jar. First he soaks them for a couple of hours in the jar, and then empties out most of the water so that the reeds won't get wet, but will still stay humid. He finds this technique extremely valuable.


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