A few excerpts from the David Sanborn cover story, The Blues and the Abstract Truth.


"David has been wrongly dismissed by cerebral-minded critics who have judged him from an Ornette Coleman standpoint.
That's not where David is coming from; He's coming from R&B, from Ray Charles and Hank Crawford."

~Christian McBride

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"Most music that doesn't move people has an ulterior motive," McBride adds on the phone a few days later. "People get together and make a game plan. They say, 'This is what's hot; let's make music like that,' rather than saying, 'Let's make music we like.' Even great musicians stumble into that once in a while. It's just as possible to make a bad jazz album as it is to make a bad R&B record. The genre or style doesn't tell you anything. I'd much rather listen to a good rock'n'roll or hip-hop or R&B album than a bad jazz album."

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"You can really tell the difference on ballads," Sanborn continues, "because there's no place to hide. I first realized that when I heard Hank play 'Don't Cry Baby'. What got me was the emotion he was able to maintain at a very slow tempo. There were big spaces in that song, but he never lost his concentration. It wasn't as if he were stopping and starting up again; it was as if he were playing in those spaces even when you didn't hear anything.""

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"You don't know how amazing that is until you try to do it yourself," he explains. "That empty space comes along and you get nervous. You say to yourself, 'Oh, man, I've got to fill that space with something.' No, you don't, but that's the hardest thing to learn. Every day that goes by, I'm more and more convinced that dealing with space is what it's all about. Whether it's music or painting or writing, it's all about filling an empty space. You start with nothing and all of a sudden there's something. But you have to leave a little of the nothing for the something to mean anything.

Listen to Miles Davis or Wayne Shorter; they got it. People were always mystified when Miles said he was influenced by Ahmad Jamal, but I think Miles was talking about the way Ahmad dealt with space."

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Some deep musical truths.



Here's Hank Crawford performing...




...Don't Cry Baby & The Peeper w/David Sanborn on Night Music.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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SWEEEEET!!!

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Great Points!!! Thanks for the headzup, I gotta grab that issue!





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