Friday, August 13, 2010

David Sanborn, great saxophonics

Quick review of David Sanborn at Interlochen:

Wow.

Slightly longer one: Dressed in his trademark black, Sanborn and his trio wailed at Interlochen tonight. Joey DeFrancesco is a wiz on organ, and sings too. Even plays trumpet. That's right, I hate him. Drummer Byron Land was crisp, dynamic and kept things rolling. But Sanborn is and was the man. This wasn't smooth jazz Dave. It was wailing, rocking, blowing bluesy Dave. He primarily played tunes from his last two discs, tributes to Ray Charles, Hank Crawford and David "Fathead" Newman. A great show was had by all.

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