This is the album where i discovered David Sanborn & his amazing Alto Sax! I,ve opted for posting the CD as it has 2 Unreleased tracks therein as my LP is battered!...if you dont know David he is the sax on the classic Esther Phillips album on CTI/KUDU,"what a difference a day makes"(now a Northern soul classic)the sax on Joe Bataan,s Inst of "The Bottle"(La Botella) the Gil-Scott Heron classic,and David Bowies "The Young Americans" and countless other albums and tracks.with nearly 30 albums to his credit i cannot get enough of his unique alto sax sound, an example of the CTI/KUDU classic sound,like Motown they had a certain jazzy/funk sound.This album came out originally in 1975 as "BECK" but was repackaged 4 years later and renamed to capitalise on sales.Which brings us to the wonderful Guitar work of Joe Beck sadly no longer with us ,passed 2008.An exponant of that smooth jazz/funk sound again reminiscent of CTI/KUDU releases.He recorded those 2 fantastic albums with Ester Phillips which are timeless!...I have everything David Sanborn has done and more to come from him and Mr beck in the future.The first taster was a huge dancefloor classic on the UK Jazz/Funk scene back in the day,the second taster is pure CTI sound all the way!..These 2 guys along with Davd Matthews & Bob James were the backbone of a lot of jazz/funk classics and the CTI label.
AMM
The 2 Tasters!
Tracks & All Star Line Up Below (FLAC)
Joe Beck – guitar
David Sanborn – alto saxophone
Don Grolnick – piano, electric piano, organ
Steve Khan – rhythm guitar
Will Lee – electric bass
Chris Parker – drums
Ray Mantilla – percussion
Charles Libove, David Nadien, Frederick Buldrini, Harold Kohon, Harry Glickman, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Max Ellen, Peter Dimitriades – violin
Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Jesse Levy – cello
Don Sebesky – arranger
LP Back
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Thanks AMM for this, looking forward to taking a listen
Reb
Thanks AMM. Never knew it was David playing on all those other classics.
One of the violinists is actually my late father-in-law, Harry Glickman (misspelled as Cykman). He appeared on a few CTI recordings, but was primarily a classical guy (although, he was also on Lennon's Imagine recording).
Amazing that Sanborn was such a great sax player, given that he spent a couple of years in an iron lung and paralyzed from the neck down due to having contracted polio as a child.
Great review, AMM. Looking forward to this one.
I really like David Sanborn and I know this album which seems interesting to me with 2 bonuses compared to the original one.
Yves
@pmac
Iv,e done a bio on sanborn for tomorrow m8...posting " heart to heart"
your full of interesting stories. Amazing...i,ll address the correct spelling on your late FIL....
Aw man, that's extremely nice of you.
I think I shared this story with you before, but never posted it on the forum. Harry was a child prodigy violinist, and was born to Jewish parents in Eastern Europe, in an area under Soviet control. Back then the Russians would frequently forcibly relocate Jews to Siberia, which was akin to a death sentence. Harry and his parents were forced onto one such train, and he took only a few clothes and his violin with him. During the trip, he started to play the violin in the train car, which emotionally resonated so much with the soldiers that he and his family was allowed to get off of the train while it was still in an urban area. They quickly fled to America. My wife only learned about this when she was listening to Harry being interviewed on the radio, and the broadcaster quizzed him about it. By all accounts, an amazing man.
@pmac...that is a very moving story..yes an amazing man indeed!..thanks for sharing such a personal story.
Excellent... many thanks for the review AMM
In my opinion, anything on the CTI label is a gem worth having...
BigD
this kind of jazz is so enjoyable. I do admire david sanfborn. I will add Joe Beck to my guitars. Thank you AMM
Thanks for this. Yes, David Sanborn is a fine artist. First I heard of him was when he played with Paul Butterfield.
Thank you for this Album AMM
thanks for another CTI fusion AMM and the same to pmac for the story
Thanks AMM for the great review
Interesting review thanks for sharing
Must confess don't know much about the crew apparently David Sanborn was pretty big at the time of release and the cover was changed never the less it pretty smooth thanks AMM
Cheers Pedro
Thanks for the review AMM and I though I knew David Sanborn thanks for the info
Always like to listen to jazz-funk ... Thanks for review, P.
Hi AMM, If I could please, thank you.
Thanks For this awesome Artist AMM. If I'm not mistaken, this album was actually his 1st studio album in 1975. what's nice about this album is that it still sounds as nice as I've first heard it way back in the 1980's. Great review AMM!! (As Usual!!!)
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