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 don't see any way out of that because I think the audience as a whole is not being served and isn't getting excited about going out an buying CD's, and for that matter, going out and going to concerts.
You might have a slight edge in terms of leverage if you've had some past success, but I don't think that really goes very far.
I started out, obviously, as a sideman, and I had some really good gigs as a sideman.
I think with the acoustic bass it allows you to explore the fuller dynamic range.
I think ticket prices are too high, but it costs so bloody much money to get anything together anymore.
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.
But certainly the idea of making records that had a mainstream appeal instrumentally was nothing that we invented.
And consequently there's not a lot of artist development, very little encouragement to take chances on anything, to do anything new or different. Same old, same old.
I basically played the music that I felt all my life, and whatever label people put on it is kind of really none of my business.
I love working with these guys. But I certainly don't begrudge them when they want to go off and do their own stuff.
I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together.
I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.
So I get it worked out beforehand so I can be really efficient in the studio.
I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.