Due to the coronavirus epidemic, live music performances in public settings had to end in 2021. David Sanborn adapted by hosting a number of master classes via Zoom.
The “Sanborn Sessions,” which included well-known performers including Michael McDonald, Marcus Miller, Christian McBride, and Sting, were also launched by him online. These sessions included live performances and interviews from his Westchester, New York, home.
Sanborn prefers to play a Selmer Mark VI alto sax. Yamaha sponsored him in the early 1980s, and he utilized their saxophones on the albums “As We Speak” and “Backstreet.” He was seen playing a Yamaha saxophone at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1981.
In an interview that was published in the jazz magazine DownBeat in April 1988, Sanborn reportedly expressed his affection for Selmer Mark VI alto saxophones with serial numbers ranging from 140,000 to 150,000, all manufactured in 1967.
Bobby Dukoff’s mouthpieces were first used by Sanborn in the late 1970s. He’s got a mouthpiece by Aaron Drake now.
Is David Sanborn still performing?
Is David Sanborn still alive? Yes, there are 13 shows David Sanborn has coming up while he is currently on tour in 1 countries. The Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park in Atlanta will host their next tour stop before they head to New York City’s Blue Note Jazz Club.