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David Sanborn Biography

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. 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 (1975).

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You're only as good as your last record.

Good, Haircuts, Lasts, Record, Records

I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.

Group, Kid, Kids, Louis, Player, Real

As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward, and it's all linear.

Moving, Player, Structures, Way

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

Acoustics, Ensemble, Kind, Play, Spectrum, Tone

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

Guy, Musician, Session, Stuff, Years

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

Ends, Hearing, Object, Play, Practicing, Things

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Expression, Kind, Music, Who I Am

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Done, Make, Records, Stuff

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Figured, Jazz, Keep, Playing

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

Band, Basketball, Reality, Team, Thing

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

Enough, Knowing, Leave, Leave Me Alone, Place, Quests

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

Black, Came, Community, Growing, Growing Up, Ninety Nine

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Increasingly, Jazz, Marginalized, Music

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Back, Channeling, Looks, Personality, Process, World

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Instrumental Music, Marginalized, Media, Outlet, Outlets, Terms