David Sanborn
David Sanborn
David Sanbornis an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop 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. Sanborn has also worked extensively as a session musician, notably on David Bowie's Young Americans...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth30 July 1945
CityTampa, FL
CountryUnited States of America
I love working with these guys. But I certainly don't begrudge them when they want to go off and do their own stuff.
But certainly the idea of making records that had a mainstream appeal instrumentally was nothing that we invented.
My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.
I'm trying to kind of keep my mind a blank for a while, and just see what filters in, and be non-specific about what I listen to.
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
I'm just saying that the basic concept of creative freedom and growth creatively is a continuous process.
The audience is interested in different stuff, not the same old, same old.
I hope this doesn't sound like false humility, because I don't mean it to, but I'm just a member of the band.
I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together.
I listen to some things that I've done, and I think they're pretty good, but that's not one of them.
No, it's unfair to the musicians and the people that work for the record labels, because they're scrambling to make their numbers every month or three months, or they're out of a job.
To me, a record needs to have a focus. It needs to have a core.
Well, if I'm really playing, I'm hopefully not thinking.
Well, I did all the pre-production and I did full demos of all the songs and then I took it into the studio and played it for all the guys and then we kind of took that as the template and did the album live very quickly.