I’ve mentioned before my deep love for lite jazz. To this day I reflexively lump David Sanborn in with lite jazz — but only for a moment. When I was 17, David Sanborn hosted the best damn music show on television: Night Music, sponsored by Michelob Dark, a two-car-garage beer desperate to appear as urban [...]
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“John Bull. That’s what we used to call English people.”
Apr 10, 2010
2:53 pm
Filed under:david sanborn, dizzy gillespie, free james brown, generation x, jazz, lite jazz, miles davis, night music, red hot chili peppers, suburban beer, the death of the ultimate mix cassette tape
Wandering Intensely
Apr 03, 2010
3:04 pm
Filed under:jazz, kind of blue, lite jazz, miles davis, new age
I remember the day Miles Davis died because my twenty year-old self possessed not an iota of curiousity in jazz music nor enough sense or insight to realize the phenom that had passed. I knew the name but not the significance. I’d heard him perform Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” and reflexively lumped him in [...]
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