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Lieb & the Miles’ Sopranos

Dave Liebman, who turns 70 today belongs to the "soprano sax players featured on a Miles Davis studio record" small club.

A club of eleven members - not counting anyone we may have missed : Wayne Shorter ("Bitches Brew", "In a Silent Way", "Big Fun"), Kenny Garrett ("Amandla"), Dave Liebman ("On the Corner", "Dark Magus"), Carlos Garnett ("On the Corner", "Big Fun", "Get Up with It"), Sonny Fortune ("Big Fun", "Agharta", "Pangaea"), Steve Grossman ("Big Fun", "Get Up with It", "Jack Johnson"), John Stubblefield ("Get Up with It"), Bob Berg ("You're Under Arrest"), Bill Evans ("We Want Miles", "Decoy", "Star People"), Branford Marsalis ("Decoy"), Marcus Miller ("Tutu"). They are the "Miles Davis' Sopranos"

Track Listing :

1.Trane Lives! (David Liebman) - 12:32 . 2.Seeds From The Underground…

David Sanborn – Time And The River

Released on April 7, 2015, "Time and the River" is David Sanborn's 25th studio album, with Marcus Miller as bassist and producer.

(Source Time And The River | David Sanborn - Official Website)

David Sanborn - Time And The River

Blogcritics



Altogether Time and the River has David Sanborn doing the kind of thing David Sanborn does best—playing music you want to listen to.

The Guardian


soul blues and smooth jazz in want of vibrancy
But there are too many places where this fine artist’s contributions sound parachuted into formulaic studio-band grooves for this set to appeal to Sanborn’s many jazz admirers. On stage, it’s bound to be quite different. The Financial Times

Rhythmic layers sit purposefully on Miller’s meaty bass, sparse patters of percussion add edge to laid-back funk, and even “Windmills of Your Mind”, sung by Randy