Topic: David Sanborn

Although it spent more money on music this year and gave its mainstage lineup a striking populist tweak, the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival...

Music On the High Seas

Cruising on its own can be an escape from reality; add music to that experience and you may never want to head back to land. . . Cruises featuring...

David Sanborn

David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist . Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B . One of the most commercially successful American saxophonists to earn prominence since ...
If you are looking to add more heat to your July, check out the Columbus Jazz and Rib Fest in Columbus, OH. Ribs won't be the only attraction; cool jazz music will be playing throughout the weekend with performances scheduled all ...

Sonic Sanborn

Noted Modern Mikado of the Alto Sax, David Sanborn, is coming to shatter The Ryman's stained-glass windows with his brassy squeals on Oct. 10.
IF YOU GOWho: $15 to $25; 658-4900 Saxophonist Michael Lingtons jazz roots run deep.His grandfather, composer and director Otto Lington, helped bring jazz to Scandinavia in the 1930s and led bands behind Fats Waller and Josephine Baker.When jazz artists came ...

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Although he is generally regarded as one of the giants in smooth jazz, B.B. King , to James Brown , to Bruce Springsteen , to Stevie Wonder required Sanborn 's services. Even respected jazz men like Ron Carter , Larry Coryell and Jaco Pastorius enlisted ...

Laughs Last

Solicit a description of Ween from the average listener and you're unlikely to hear words like musicianship and sincerity. But those terms came up early in TONY's recent phone chat with Grammy-winning smooth-jazz saxist David Sanborn, who has an unlikely ...

Frantic Sanborn fails to gel

A bad day for jazz stars began at Heathrow airport, where Rashied Ali, the 72-year-old drum legend from Philadelphia, was detained by immigration officials for seven hours. At Ronnie Scott's, meanwhile, altoist David Sanborn's group arrived safely only for their ...