David Sanborn death: Grammy-winning multi-genre saxophonist, dead at 78

Grammy-winning saxophonist David Sanborn, who was celebrated for his a long time of labor that spanned a number of genres and included collaborations with a few of music’s biggest artists, handed away Sunday, his consultant confirmed to ABC Information. He was 78.

“It’s with unhappy and heavy hearts that we convey to you the lack of internationally famend, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist, David Sanborn,” learn a put up on Sanborn’s official Fb web page, asserting that he died “after an prolonged battle with prostate most cancers with problems.”

“Mr. Sanborn had been coping with prostate most cancers since 2018, however had been in a position to keep his regular schedule of live shows till only in the near past,” the put up continued. “Certainly he already had live shows scheduled into 2025.”

“David Sanborn was a seminal determine in up to date pop and jazz music. It has been mentioned that he ‘put the saxophone again into Rock ‘n Roll,'” the put up concludes.

Sanborn, an alto saxophonist, was well-known not solely within the jazz world, however in pop, rock and R&B, as nicely. He launched his first album, “Taking Off,” in 1975, which landed within the prime 20 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. He went on to win six Grammy Awards, and RIAA-certified Gold albums and one Platinum album.

Sanborn carried out and recorded with a bunch of musicians from a mess of genres, together with enjoying on David Bowie’s 1975 album “Younger People”; with James Taylor on 4 albums, together with the hit single “How Candy It Is (To Be Liked By You)”; and with Eric Clapton and Sting on the 1992 hit single “It is Most likely Me,” from the soundtrack to the film “Deadly Weapon 3.”

Different artists with whom Sanborn recorded embody The Who’s Roger Daltrey, Stevie Surprise, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Carly Simon, Billy Joel, Steely Dan, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, the Grateful Useless, the Eagles, and plenty of others.