When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

I. Sanborn often performs at Japan's Blue Note venues in Nagoya Osaka and Tokyo. Alto saxophonist Hank Crawford at the time a member of Ray Charles's band was an early and lasting influence on Sanborn.

Sanborn has also worked extensively as a session musician notably on David Bowie's Young Americans (1975). David Sanborn (born July 30 1945) is an American alto saxophonist.