David Sanborn, Grammy-winning saxophonist who played on hundreds of albums, dies at 78

NEW YORK (AP) — David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who performed energetic solos on such hits as David Bowie’s “Younger Individuals” and James Taylor’s “How Candy It Is (To Be Cherished By You)” and loved his personal extremely profitable recording profession as a performer of melodic, modern jazz, has died at age 78.

A spokesperson confirmed that Sanborn died Sunday in Tarrytown, New York. The trigger was problems from prostate most cancers.

“The information of the lack of David Sanborn to the music world has deeply saddened me,” pianist Bob James, who collaborated with Sanborn on the Grammy-winning “Double Imaginative and prescient” album, wrote on Fb. “I used to be so privileged to share main highlights of my profession in partnership with him. His legacy will stay on via the recordings. Each observe he performed got here straight from his coronary heart, with a passionate depth that would make an abnormal tune extraordinary.”

Equally versatile and prolific, Sanborn loved uncommon fame and recognition for a saxophone participant. He launched eight gold albums and one platinum album; sat in often with the “Late Night time With David Letterman” band led by Paul Shaffer; and even co-hosted a present, “Night time Music,” that included appearances by Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, Lou Reed and plenty of others.

“Jazz has all the time remodeled and absorbed what’s round it,” he instructed DownBeat journal in 2017. “Actual musicians don’t have any time to spend fascinated with restricted classes.”

A local of Tampa, Florida, whose household moved to Kirkwood, Missouri, Sanborn took up the saxophone as a boy after recovering from a extreme bout with polio and being suggested by a physician to strengthen his lungs. By his mid-teens, he had carried out with blues greats Albert King and Little Milton, and he would quickly be part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, their reveals together with a set on the Woodstock pageant in 1969.

From the Nineteen Seventies and after, Sanborn was among the many busiest musicians within the enterprise. He was a session participant for dozens of high artists, from Bowie and Taylor to the Rolling Stones and Stevie Surprise, and made greater than 20 solo albums, together with the Grammy winners “Straight to the Coronary heart” and “Double Imaginative and prescient.” He continued to tour often even after his most cancers analysis in 2018 and had already deliberate reveals for subsequent 12 months.