His second album, 1977's Promise Me the Moon, made the jazz charts and precipitated a three-decade chart and sales run that included albums such as 1980's smash hit Hideaway, 1984's live Straight to the Heart, and 1985's Double Vision with Bob James. Sanborn's biting, instantly recognizable tone is passionate and completely committed. A pioneer of smooth and contemporary jazz, he is also a prolific session player whose horn has graced recordings by more than 100 artists including Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Roger Waters, Esther Phillips, James Brown, and Ween. He is a best-selling, multi-Grammy-winning saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Though a self-professed jazz musician, he has consistently subverted and transcended genres. The album's cover images were photographed by Aubrey 'Po' Powell, Storm's partner at the Pink Floyd design studio Hipgnosis and was inspired by the idea that people tend to conceal their true feelings, for fear of 'getting burned', and thus two businessmen were pictured shaking hands, one man on fire. David Sanborn is among the most commercially successful saxophonists to emerge from the 1970s.
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