tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694480735393172006.post2559094356217778358..comments2023-09-30T06:09:28.429-05:00Comments on Plastic Sax: Concert Review: Dave Koz and David Sanborn at Muriel Kauffman TheatreHappy In Baghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325328547476858000noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694480735393172006.post-33994868866316041352016-08-17T09:37:02.033-05:002016-08-17T09:37:02.033-05:00Dean- I've binged on early '70s Hank Crawf...Dean- I've binged on early '70s Hank Crawford albums since you left your thoughtful and highly valued retort. You (and David) are right. Hank's influence is obvious. Even so, I stand by my implication that the overall vibe of DS' most popular work is based on the Maceo/JB dynamic.Happy In Baghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03325328547476858000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694480735393172006.post-8862296860352892062016-08-12T13:31:09.966-05:002016-08-12T13:31:09.966-05:00I'm glad to see positive comments about David ...I'm glad to see positive comments about David Sanborn, who's a fine musician and seems to be a genuinely decent person. But I've got to push back a bit against the notion that he's a deliberate knock-off of Maceo Parker. <br /><br />Sanborn has said many times (including to me when I interviewed him a few years back) that his thing is heavily influenced by Hank Crawford and David "Fathead" Newman. There's a specific anecdote that he's told several interviewers about about seeing the two of them playing with Ray Charles after a St. Louis Hawks basketball game, and that being a formative experience for him. <br /><br />Also, he and Maceo are basically contemporaries, just a couple of years apart in age. Maceo did start with James Brown three years before Sanborn first played with Paul Butterfield, but the basics of Sanborn's style were already in place by his late teens, before he could have heard Maceo playing with JB. <br /><br />Sanborn and Parker do have similar sounds, but I'd posit that it's because they have similar influences - Crawford, Newman, maybe a little Louis Jordan and Earl Bostic, too.Dean Mindermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13849119270850790787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694480735393172006.post-25799592954541210532016-08-08T14:22:47.291-05:002016-08-08T14:22:47.291-05:00Sanborn is an easy target to spoof but he covered ...Sanborn is an easy target to spoof but he covered the Velvet Undergound's "Jesus."Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497144381327988036noreply@blogger.com