A lesson for the Jazz Police

The well-kept under jazzmen quip, like a jazz musician fastest comes to one million, namely if it starts with two million, already includes a well maintained skepticism. Has a jazz musician commercial success, so can not vote anything. And indeed, it is usually so that a jazz musician who remain true to their genre linger in poverty maintained. Unless they do something else on the side, behind which they are not, but with which they make money. Michael Brecker, the giant among the tenor saxophonist, was one of them. The played with on pop albums and used alongside his own work, which set new standards.

One who always exposed himself to the suspicion of the United Jazz Police has been and David Sanborn. So far, he has brought a total of 25 albums, and had great success with all. Since it was not long until he certified the council, he produces muzak. Although much was there, that sounded quite familiar, he has this never bent. And if there is a reference of this thesis, it is the fact that quite offering reputable and renowned musicians of the genre him repeatedly its employees.

The new album by David Sanborn, Time and the River, which, after a long time, was once again in collaboration with bassist Marcus Miller, is a fresh, dynamic and spirited work that conveys anything but the feeling of muzak and also not of a kind as always crisis of jazz. The main reason is that Sanborn, Miller, Roy Asaf, Justin Mullens, Ricky Peterson, Javier Diaz, Marcus Baylor and have recorded as guests Randy Crawford and Larry Braggs pieces that probably because to a large extent their inner conviction and the unbridled joy corresponded.

In A la verticale typical runs of Blue Rockers Sanborn are listening to, which are backed by a Latino rhythm, Ordinary People turns out to be a ballad with a hot urban rhythm, drift bears the unmistakable signature of gambling against the melody lines Marcus Miller, Can 't Get Next To You with the Tower of Power singer Larry Braggs is a melodic and dynamic R & B number, Oublie Moi in turn brings the audience back into the silence and contemplation back Seven Days Seven Nights comes across as an etude, in which the legitimate alienation will lead by example, without the audio pleasure including litte, Windmills Of Your Mind with Randy Crawford is put forward in chanting variation of standards, which is thereby transferred to the Contemporary, Spanish Joint surprised convinced than radio in Latin diction, Overture as an at Blue Notes oriented ballad and Little Church releases the tension repeatedly produced on very successful and could even be something for jazz purists.

The 10 pieces on Time And The River almost hear a relief to the face of the whole lament about the crisis of the Jazz, who is marking time and to sneak with string Arangements out of the crisis analyzed. It is a fresh and compelling album that makes and inspired fun. No ifs and buts.