★★★★★
Alto saxophonist has released dozens of albums in his own name, straddling jazz, R&B; and pop. But many listeners will be more familiar with his session work. His keening sax sound has featured prominently on hundreds of recordings, including and . Then Again: The Anthology spotlights Sanborn's own albums. It focuses on his peak years from 1975 to 1996 when he was recording for Warner Brothers and Elektra Records. He averaged one album release a year, winning Grammy Awards for three of them...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Only Everything is alto saxophonist David Sanborn's second straight release paying homage to one of his greatest and earliest influences, Ray Charles. While some jazz purists may dismiss Sanborn as a slick TV personality and practitioner of smooth or pop jazz, he's always had firm roots in bluesy, R&B-based; jazz, dating to his early days playing with the likes of Albert King and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
Track Listing: St. Louis Blues; Brother Ray; I'm Gonna Move To the Outskirts of Town; Basin Street Blues; Stoney Lonesome; I Believe To My Soul; What Will I Tell My Heart; Please Send Me Someone To Love; I've Got News for You...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: St. Louis Blues; Brother Ray; I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town; Basin Street Blues; Stoney Lonesome; I Believe to My Soul; What Will I Tell My Heart?; Please Send Me Someone to Love; I've Got News for You...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Saxophonist David Sanborn is one of the most recognizable instrumentalists in modern music. From his many television appearances?on his own show, Night Music, and with David Letterman's band?to his popular records and tours, Sanborn is among the few names in jazz that non-jazzheads can recognize. In 2008, Sanborn released Here & Gone (Decca, 2008), an album that pays tribute to saxophonist Hank Crawford, who was a key part of the Ray Charles band through many of its greatest years...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Soulfulness is a slippery concept. Too often it's a synonym for empty emotion, a cloak worn to hide the absence of feeling. Saxophonist David Sanborn can do slickness when required (remember Bowie's Young Americans?) but he's old and jazzwise enough to understand real soul. On St Louis Blues, he does an amazing job of channelling the spirit of altoist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (who added an essential dimension of soul to Kind of Blue)...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
★★★★★
Only Everything picks up where David Sanborn's previous release, Here & Gone, left off—literally. From its opening track, Hank Crawford's "The Peeper," the album continues along the bluesy path of its predecessor, paying tribute to the Atlantic Records R&B; era of Ray Charles and, especially, the recently departed Crawford, the alto saxophonist who got his start with Charles in the late 1950s...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-03-12
★★★★★
Fans of David Sanborn's alto sax sound will welcome his 14th solo issue of urban pop-jazz compositions that fit well with the smooth-jazz idiom prevalent on radio today. He collaborated with producer-pianist Ricky Peterson to write most of the songs. But rather than hire a band immediately, the pair first added drum loops to Peterson's piano and keyboard bass foundation, then brought in musicians...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Of all the contemporary jazz artists, saxophonist David Sanborn is fascinating because he knows way more than he plays. It's easy to detect Hank Crawford in Sanborn's pinched, super-hot tone and riff-oriented improvisations, but many times his song choices suggest little regard for jazz tradition. But it's tough to cast Sanborn aside based upon his repertoire, because sometimes he'll sneak some high-grade in on you...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
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