Music
This month presents jazz fans with a genuine quandary: more top-notch music than anyone can possibly digest in four weeks.
May 7, 1991
Irish rock band U2’s socially conscious “The Joshua Tree” was named album of the year Wednesday night in the 30th annual Grammy Awards ceremony.
March 3, 1988
After spending decades as a marginalized genre, jazz has something of an internal obsession with providing entry points.
Aug. 17, 2016
Whitney Houston won an award for best pop vocal performance by a female for the song, “I Want to Dance with Somebody,” while the Irish rock group U2 was honored for best rock vocal performance by a duo or group for its “The Joshua Tree” album as the 30th annual Grammy Awards got under way at Radio City Music Hall here Wednesday night.
David Sanborn, the influential saxophonist who collaborated with Stevie Wonder and David Bowie, has died from prostate cancer. He was 78.
World & Nation
In 1991, Marine pilot Russell Sanborn was a POW in Iraq. Beaten and starved then, he returned last year for combat and ‘closure.’
April 20, 2004
There was a time when David Sanborn, was, to use his own description, fairly “ubiquitous” around the music scene.
Oct. 31, 1992
David Sanborn may have been the most influential alto saxophonist of the ‘70s and early ‘80s.
Aug. 30, 1988
Obituaries
World’s oldest woman outlived three husbands.
Feb. 1, 2011
PASSINGS: Eunice G. Sanborn