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Close-Up

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"Close-Up" was the followup to David Sanborn's phenomenal "Change of Heart" album that lifted him to jazz superstar status. Half the cuts are legendary, including "Slam," "J.T." "Lesley Ann" and "Goodbye," with which Sanborn concluded a recent SRO performance at the Dallas Symphony Hall.

Lesley Ann is a perfect example of how he plays with so much feeling and style. It's so smooth and all flows. He doesn't miss a beat!

Since I bought this album I have been his big fan. I heard most of his album but still yet CLOSE-UP is my favourite, he sound different then any other album. I think this is very well ballanced album, It starts with great energetic song SLAM which captured my heart from the start, and then goes to J.T and LESLEY both starts slow but both get better towards the end specialy J.T the improvisetion is amazing in this song, then GOOD BYE, This song is realy emotional(nearly cryied),in these kind of song sax is realy singing. The next song SAME GIRL seemed like a little rest to me, but next two song PYRAMID and TOUGH brought back the tension from the beginning and then so on. This album realy kept my blood boiled till the end. I think sanborn`s music changed from this album, I think this album was his end and new beginning to his music. This album also showed great talent of Marcus Miller as a great producer not only as a great bass player.

Shows great range and musical ideas with the Saxophone, especially JT. Highly recromended

David Sanborn is my favorite alto player, period. Sanborns sax sounds like no one else. There are many imitators like Koz, Dulfer and Marienthal but there is only one Sanborn. My favorite tracks on this release are JT, Lesley Ann, Goodbye, So far away and pyramid. When he holds a note and screeches I get shivers like you might get practicing kundalini yoga. This music will make you feel great, thats a guarantee. Having Marcus Miller the funkiest cat on the planet on bass guitar is another major plus.Other great Sanborn releases are Backstreet,As we speak and Upfront. If you want some great soulful and funky music, don't miss this one!

I bought this after a You Tube viewing of Slam and found the entire album the bomb. Sanborn is amazing and has a band around him that can carry their part and then some,

This is an excellent CD. Great easy listening, smooth jazz. A must for Sax lovers.

Sanborn's previous album Change of Heart really catapulted him into a big commercially successful place. Even as a pop-jazz player Sanborn had a gritty and intelligent tone to him that set him apart from the Kenny G's of the music world and even closer contemporaries such as Grover Washington Jr. With Marcus Miller and Paulinho Da Costa on the case musically on this follow up album Sanborn really lets us have it with ten excellent instrumental tunes,luckily coming at a time when it seemed that instrumental pop-jazz needed a good reputation. This is roughly around the same time Sanborn hosted his own late night cable jazz show where he'd have everyone from Sun Ra,Bootsy Collins and Al Green sometimes even on the same show doing the unexpected. And that's part of what makes this album so special. While it's sound couldn't be anymore rooted in late 80's jazz/R&B/funk these songs all deal with different textures of rhythm,beat and style enough to keep things always interesting and always exciting. Now this album contains some hefty,funky jams such as "Slam","Tough" and "Pyramid",which is a song that integrates a sort of digitized funk beat that only seems appropriate at the dawn of the new jack swing era although it really doesn't have anything to do with hip-hop,even if it sounds like it. All the same the influence on and from it in that regard is very important musically. Other songs such as "J.T","Lesley Ann" and "So Far Away" are more rhythmically diverse midtempo songs that make very strong use of percussion and,as always include some very jazzily improvisational breaks that showcase Sanborn's and the other players top notch musicianship and way with a groove. Even though Sanborn is usually not associated with funk (he probably should be) he surrounded himself with musicians strongly associated with it throughout his career and that shows as well. "Same Girl" is a short but potent number that is the most acoustically jazzy styled tune here-a Randy Newman cover featuring a piano solo by Marcus Miller. Sanborn gets a very soulful flavor on a modernized version of The Stylistics "You Are Everything". The album ends on a very Caribbean styled groove as Da Costa really gets his chance to work out with his percussion on "Camel Island",an easy highlite from this album. David Sanborn was on a bit of a roll in the mid to late 80's and this is an album that continued that upward momentum with everything he had.

David Sanborn is awesome, and this CD is really good listening. My favorite Sanborn CD is his Double Vision CD with Bob James.

What an incredible and sexy track! JT resonates to the soul. Sexiest Sanborn tune of all time.