Filed under: All About Jazz In many ways, David Sanborn's career shouldn't work. The alto saxophonist will play with just about anybody at any time, ranging from 'Diamond Dogs'-era David Bowie to Cheech and Chong to famous jazz arranger Gil Evans to the ' Lethal Weapon ' soundtracks, yet his own material is steadfastly jazz. No matter the context, his tone retains an earthy blues streak and some of...
David Sanborn returns on January 26 with a CD titled Only Everything that is his second collection of songs influenced by the late Ray Charles and again produced by the Phil Ramone. The first CD came with 2008’s Here and Gone, which featured the smooth jazz hit single “Brother Ray.” Only Everything features the trio of Sanborn, Joey Defrancesco on Hammond B-3 organ and Steve Gadd...
All good things must come to an end, alas (Part One is here , Part Two is here , Part Three is here , Part Four is here , Part Five is here , Part Six is here , Part Seven is here , and Part Eight is here )... RIP Griffin Bell (What a shame he didn’t live to see FISA restored to the law he originally authored in 1978), Ricardo Montalban, Patrick McGoohan, Beverly Eckert, Andrew Wyeth, Donald...
Album about American cities and states charted for 50 weeks. Chart-topper “Hit the Road Jack” leads off the bonus tracks. When Ray Charles left Atlantic Records for ABC-Paramount, his first move was to gather up a dozen vintage songs about U.S. destinations. The resulting album, The Genius Hits the Road, in turn gave Charles his first No. 1 hit, a soulful reading of Hoagy Carmichael's...
Contemporary Jazz legends Bob James and Earl Klugh will reunite for a week at the Blue Note to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of their 1979 GRAMMY® winning, platinum-selling collaboration, One On One. With a total of nearly 70 full-length albums recorded independently by Klugh and James, their award-winning discographies are impressive and diverse. The career of Bob James is long, varied and...
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Recorded between 1953 & 1959. Includes liner notes by Leo Sacks & Billy Vera. This is not just a terrific greatest hits package. It's also a revelatory look at the astonishingly rapid development of Ray Charles' music between 1954 (when he signed with Atlantic after a few previous years as a Nat "King" Cole wannabe) and 1960, when he departed for ABC-Paramount for what was at the...
LIVE: David Sanborn/ YolanDa Brown/Sam Moore (above) Barbican Centre, Juy 2nd 2009. " Barbican Summer Jazz , (follow the link for the full programme), part of the Blaze Festival, kicked off last night with David Sanborn's American band with veteran soul singer Sam Moore. Next up will be Martin Medeski and Wood on July 8th, and the series culminates on July 24th with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra...
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Rhino Handmade Records "Hommage a Nesuhi" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select ONE winner to receive this 5 disc, limited edition set at the conclusion of the contest on July 31st. Click here to enter the contest (Following Nesuhi Ertegun at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)...
Thursday 2 July 7.30 David Sanborn + special guest Sam Moore + YolanDa Brown Tickets 10/15/20/25 Produced by the Barbican in association with Serious Part of Blaze One of the most instantly-recognisable saxophonists in the history of jazz, {{David Sanborn = 4040}} returns to the Barbican with the live version of his acclaimed recording from last year, Here and Gone. Conceived as a tribute to the soul-drenched...
This is part of the "Rhino Atlantic Jazz Gallery" series. Atlantic Jazz: Saxophones gathers some of the label's most memorable sax performances, including a live version of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "If I Loved You," John Coltrane's "Giant Steps," Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman," Yusef Lateef's "Russell and Eliot," and Hank Crawford's "Lorelei's Lament."...
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