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10-24-05
Cannonbal adderly....eddie harris......junior walker....char ... Jaybo
10-24-05
I think that charlie parker and lester young would have to b ... Cincy_bob
10-24-05
If we talk about "favorites", then my list include ... Drubin
10-24-05
William jefferson clinton........lol! Sugarbrie
10-24-05
John coltrane albert ayler tim berne david s. ware peter bro ... Ejlif
10-24-05
Just to clarify cincy bobs list, cecil taylor does not play ... Ejlif
10-24-05
Sorry, that was a slip on my part. Cincy_bob
10-24-05
Cincy_bob's list is pretty extensive & he's covered almost a ... Bombaywalla
10-24-05
Lester young, jerry mulligan, charlie parker, james carter, ... Ohteeel
10-24-05
in no particular order... ornette coleman john coltrane ch ... Waltersalas
10-24-05
Michael brecker ornette coleman john zorn evan parker ravi c ... Marakanetz
10-24-05
1. johnny hodges 2. gene ammons 3. stanley turrentine 4. sta ... Shoff
10-24-05
The five rule is masochistic and it makes otherwise highly d ... Duanegoosen
10-24-05
Michael brecker,phil woods,don potter,jan garberek,coltrane. ... Digsmithd
10-25-05
I agree with bombaywalla, that art pepper belongs among the ... Kana813
10-25-05
Stan sulzman,paul mc,candless,stan turin!dgoosen nice choice ... Digsmithd
10-25-05
Wow! not an easy task...but if i had a gun put to my head th ... Siliab
10-25-05
Steve marcus cica 72 with larry coryell call to hiher con,th ... Digsmithd
10-25-05
All time great has to mean those who were most influential, ... Frogman
10-25-05
while i don't have a problem with smooth jazz or david sanb ... Eddinanm3
10-25-05
Woods coltrane adderly young joe henderson josh redman and ... Bojack
10-25-05
What about "bleeding gums murphy" boy can he play ... Rwjp
10-26-05
Eddinanm3, that's the problem with limiting the list to five ... Frogman
10-26-05
Here's 5 who are perhaps underappreciated, compared with the ... Jdoris
10-26-05
There was no shortage of players around to develop strains o ... Duanegoosen
10-26-05
Well, we've pretty well scoured the roster for the 'five top ... Islandear
10-26-05
Paul desmond a source in the smooth jazz genre as we define ... Frogman
10-26-05
Sweet lou donaldson cannonball adderley ike quebec john klem ... Qdrone
10-26-05
Frogman, it's obvious that you like some great stuff and i ... Duanegoosen
10-27-05
I'm glad that kenny g is excepted from everyone's lists. Marakanetz
10-27-05
Yeah kenny g, that begs the question if an artist finds a ni ... Qdrone
10-27-05
Desmond and klemmer blow me away. klemmer's "eruptions ... Duanegoosen
10-27-05
Duanegoosen, point well taken; almost. as i see it, edinanm3 ... Frogman
10-27-05
Yeah but don't forget touch,barefoot ballet and a very under ... Qdrone
10-28-05
Frogman, i like your second list better than your first one, ... Eddinanm3
10-28-05
While desmond has been described here as a proponent of 'smo ... Islandear
10-31-05
My vote goes to: tenor: 1) ben webster 2) lester young 3) jo ... Jhwalker
11-12-05: Frogman
From The New York times
Jazz Review | David Sanborn
A Coolly Lyrical Sound, but Not Exactly Smooth
By NATE CHINEN
Published: November 10, 2005
When the alto saxophonist David Sanborn released his first album as a leader 30 years ago, there was no way of auguring the genre that would bubble up in his wake. Smooth jazz is unimaginable without Mr. Sanborn; his coolly imploring brand of lyricism runs through all its iterations, including the latest, urban jazz and chill.
This is a source of some ambivalence for Mr. Sanborn, whose playing has always suggested the grit of rhythm-and-blues. At the Blue Note on Tuesday night, he made a point of starting strong, with explosive and rhythmically complex strands of Latin jazz.
Mr. Sanborn has the right musicians for the task. The keyboardist Geoffrey Keezer, the bassist Mike Pope and the drummer Terreon Gully are a well-calibrated rhythm section, and the percussionist Don Alias brings a welcome layer of texture. On Horace Silver's "Seņor Blues," the group backed Mr. Sanborn's chirping phrases with a satisfying heavy churn. The second song, Gil Fuller and Chano Pozo's classic "Tin Tin Deo," was even more doggedly propulsive, peaking with a blistering exchange between Mr. Alias, on timbales, and Mr. Gully, on snare drum and toms.
The remainder of the set was so much more temperate that it almost felt like a different show - the one, of course, that the audience had paid handsomely to see. There were scattered cheers when Mr. Sanborn introduced "Maputo," a polished track from his 1990 album with the keyboardist Bob James. A similar response greeted "The Dream," a treacly pop ballad by Michael Sembello that he inflated to grand dimensions, like a float in a parade.
Still, "smooth" is not the best characterization of Mr. Sanborn's style. His tone is tart, not velvety, and he often phrases in staccato bursts. He spends a lot of time straining for cathartic high notes and then holding them aloft - a gesture not so much of intimacy as of triumph. What distinguished his strongest playing of the set, on "Lotus Blossom" - not the Billy Strayhorn standard but a Don Grolnick ballad with a vaguely Brazilian lilt - was that he worked quietly and patiently, drawing the audience in before leaping into flight.
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11-12-05
Yes, i saw mr. sanborn about a month and a half ago at jazz ... Eddinanm3
11-12-05
Eddinanm3, i don't disagree with you. there is no question t ... Frogman
11-13-05
John coltrane, eric dolphy, pharoah sanders, ornette coleman ... Colitas
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