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One of the seldom mentioned factoids about Butterfield is that his band served as an important “training ground” for a saxophone player who would go on to become the most emulated Rock and Pop saxophone stylist of the last several decades. A very young Dave Sanborn was in Butterfield’s band’s horn section for several years and developed a style that owes a whole lot to Butterfield’s own style on harp. Easy to hear and understand once the connection is made. Sanborn would go on to become a star and one the most emulated alto saxophone players in recent years. Ironically, that gritty and soulful style of saxophone playing would be bastardized and became, in a caricaturish kind of way, one of the defining sounds of a lot of the dreck that is “Smooth Jazz”; but that’s another story.
https://youtu.be/B4GNci5koi8
One of the seldom mentioned factoids about Butterfield is that his band served as an important “training ground” for a saxophone player who would go on to become the most emulated Rock and Pop saxophone stylist of the last several decades. A very young Dave Sanborn was in Butterfield’s band’s horn section for several years and developed a style that owes a whole lot to Butterfield’s own style on harp. Easy to hear and understand once the connection is made. Sanborn would go on to become a star and one the most emulated alto saxophone players in recent years. Ironically, that gritty and soulful style of saxophone playing would be bastardized and became, in a caricaturish kind of way, one of the defining sounds of a lot of the dreck that is “Smooth Jazz”; but that’s another story.
https://youtu.be/B4GNci5koi8