Re: David Sanborn - Taking Off (1975)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:10 pm

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It's no Disco Duck.
Have we ever done a Rick Dees album?

How about the bloke who did The Streak?

Ray Stevens. I was thinking of launching a mini-playlist of his hits, the other night.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:11 pm

Track 4 - Funky Banana. banana

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:11 pm

4: Funky Banana

Back to the smooth jaaazzz.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:11 pm

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:It sorta sounds like a parody. And yet…

That's the amazing thing about D. Sanborn - he more-or-less invented this strutting, machismo-driven style of sax playing.

So it always sounds epically cliched.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:11 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It's no Disco Duck.
Have we ever done a Rick Dees album?

How about the bloke who did The Streak?
Ray Stevens. I was thinking of launching a mini-playlist of his hits, the other night.

Mostly because of his cover of Misty.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:11 pm

I remember liking this one.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:12 pm

Proper Main Theme from Taxi.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:12 pm

Now you see the kids today don't have time for the jazz with all the hipping and a hopping that gives them the brain damage

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:13 pm

Nightjar wrote:
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:It sorta sounds like a parody. And yet…

That's the amazing thing about D. Sanborn - he more-or-less invented this strutting, machismo-driven style of sax playing.

So it always sounds epically cliched.

David Sanborn - Taking Off (1975) - Page 3 Epic-sax-guy-sax

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:13 pm

I imagine that if you don't like saxamaphone then this album is pretty much the closest to musical hell you could get.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:14 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:14 pm

Track 5 - The Whisperer. gossip

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:14 pm

Nightjar wrote:I imagine that if you don't like saxamaphone then this album is pretty much the closest to musical hell you could get.

Incidentally, it was his playing on Young Americans that forced me to overcome my previous h8tred of sax. yes

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:14 pm

I don't much like saxamaphone. Apart from that guy out Van Der Graaf Generator, he's alright.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:15 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Track 5 - The Whisperer.

It's like every song title on this album is designed to be accompanied by a NHOTW emoticon.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:15 pm

Bit less focussed this one.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:16 pm

"Focussed" - now there's a word that never looks right written down.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:17 pm

by Nightjar Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:17 pm

Needs to start stopping now.

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Saxamaphone or saxamaphadefintely not?