Botti and Sanborn- Jazz Giants

[AllenLowe]

I think it just means they're both tall - and shop at the Large Men's Store -

[RDK]

Who was it that called Sanborn and Botti "jazz giants" anyway? As my dear mum always told me, "consider the source."

[WD45]

... Coltrane, yes, for better or worse. [...]

Huh?

[clifford_thornton]

Musical giant, but poor eating habits surely contributed to his health problems.

Doubt that was the intended meaning, but still...

[chris olivarez]

Don't know that much about Botti but considering that he's revered in smooth jazz circles I really have no desire to know anything about him at this time.

Sanborn on the other hand hasn't always followed the straight and narrow smooth jazz line. Even when he went in a commercial direction I always respected his playing even though I might not have cared for his choices. Would I call Sanborn a giant? No but I doubt that Sanborn would think of himself in those terms. I did like his TV show.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Thinking of "Night Music" prompted a quick Google and happened upon davidsanborn.com - what I did not know was that Sanborn was given an alto as rehabilitaion for Polio which he contracted at age 3. I'll be using that tidbit at my next cocktail party.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Can I predict the phrase "David Who?" will follow soon thereafter? Either that or you have impressively hip cocktail parties.

Mike

[AllenLowe]

we should add here that Night Music was the Greatest music show ever to appear on TV - I do not exaggerate - filled with avant garders and other non-conventional players; had Sonny Rollins and Ivo Papasov and many many others, and was really too good to last - for that alone I can forgive Sanborn his musical transgressions -

Edited October 11, 2005 by AllenLowe

[Michael Fitzgerald]

I have to disagree - the show almost never showed the artists in the best light, the host(s) were uncharismatic, the brief interviews were uncomfortable. Beginning in the second season, things got cut back in terms of time and it just became a perfunctory one-after-the-other set of 4- or 5-minute spots. When it started, there was a chance that it would be something better than simply an entire show filled with "Tonight Show"- or "SNL"-style music appearances. The wasted opportunities got me so frustrated.

But don't ask me what the greatest TV music show was.

Mike

[AllenLowe]

that's why it was so great - it was naked, sloppy, rushed TV - but NEVER before or since has TV seen such an odd assortment of musical acts - Eastern European rock and roll avant gardists (and good ones!), Bulgarian wedding bands, I think even the World Saxophone quartet might have been on, Sonny was on - I loved it -