Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

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.