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Jazz Reviews : Saxophonist Sanborn's Funky Freeway Ride DON HECKMAN and Like Stan Getz in the '50s, Sanborn's influence has flowed from his
capacity to popularize. Both musicians developed playing styles that smoothed the edges of rich, aesthetically dense music identified with older black players into more easily grasped translations of the originals. In Getz's case, the earlier model was Lester Young; in Sanborn's, it was the blues-styled alto saxophonist Hank Crawford. Each translation fascinated more in its early manifestation than it has over the long haul.
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