We've just heard the sad news that jazz saxophonist David Sanborn died
yesterday aged 78. An announcement today on his
Twitter/X
feed states:
"It is with sad and heavy hearts that we convey to you the loss of
internationally renowned, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist,
David Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn passed Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an
extended battle with prostate cancer with complications."
It goes on to say that he had been dealing with prostate cancer since
2018, but had been able to maintain his normal schedule of concerts until
just recently and had already scheduled concerts into 2025.
His website lists four dates at Blue Note Jazz Club, NYC, for 8-11 Aug
'24 and only earlier this month he posted the latest
Sanborn Sessions
which feature Kandace Springs.
Sanborn began his career in 1959 aged just 14 playing blues with Albert
King and Little Milton. His first solo album, "Taking Off", didn't
arrive until 1975, performing in Paul Butterfield's Blues Band from
1967-71 and appearing at Woodstock in 1969.
In 1972 he played on "Tuesday Heartbreak" on Stevie Wonder's "Talking
Book", in 1975 on Bowie's "Young Americans" and later worked with The
Brecker Brothers who he recorded his first album with.
In addition to his solo work, he was a highly regarded session musician
and has over 800 credits to his name with far too many artists to list
but include: George Benson, James Brown, Al Jarreau, Nina Simone, James
Taylor, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Michael Bolton, Bruce Springsteen, Bob
James, Chaka Khan and so many others.
We asked Steve Aggasild (SoulAndJazzFlavas) (who relayed the news to us)
to come up with some of his Sanborn favourites and he provided us with
this very quick list off the top of his head (and we're sure there where
will be plenty of others):
David Sanborn - Hideaway - 1980 - Hideaway
David Sanborn - Let's Just Say Goodbye - 1981 - Voyeur
Fatback - She's My Shining Star - 1982 - On The Floor With Fatback
David Sanborn feat. Luther Vandross & Tawatha Agee - Neither
One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) - 1983 - Backstreet
Bob James & David Sanborn - Maputo - 1986 - Double Vision
David Sanborn - Chicago Song - 1987 - Change Of Heart
David Sanborn feat Randy Crawford - Windmills Of Your Mind -
2015 - Time And The River
The James Last Orchestra feat David Sanborn - The Seduction (Love
Theme)
We leave you with a live version of the title track of his 1984 "Straight
To The Heart" album and a playlist of a dozen including the ones above chosen by Steve.
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