#B.B. King

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B.B. King *September 16, 1925

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These two needed friendship necklaces 💖✨

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B. B. King, 1984

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Duff Mckagan, Izzy Stradlin, Matt Sorum, and Gilby Clarke perform with B.B. King and Bo Diddley.

Performance at The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Grand Opening Concert, March 10, 1995.

This was the first ever rock and roll themed hotel, as well as the first Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to be built.

Wayne Neutron (Billy Idol & Friends) consisted of Billy Idol with several other artists, including current and past GNR members Izzy Stradlin, Duff Mckagan, Matt Sorum, and Gilby Clarke, as well as GNR affiliate (featured) musician, Teddy ZigZag Andreadis.

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“A Great Loss:” Saxophonist David Sanborn Dies at 78

Saxophonist David Sanborn, who recorded smooth jazz as a solo artist and toured and recorded with David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan and others as a sideman, has died.

“May the great David Sanborn rest in love and peace,” Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation said.

Sanborn, 78, died May 12 of complications from prostate cancer, said a post on his Facebook page. The saxophonist had continued performing since his 2018 diagnosis and “already had concerts scheduled into 2025,” the post read.

“David Sanborn was a seminal figure in contemporary pop and jazz music,” the announcement read. “It has been said that he put the saxophone back into rock ‘n’ roll.”

Fernando Perdomo echoed this sentiment, crediting Sanborn with “defin(ing) the sax’s role in pop and rock in the ’70s and ’80s.”

Questlove recalled being “floored” by a Sanborn show in Colorado, where the saxophonist made the drummer “feel like a complete amateur” despite playing an instrument that requires a significant amount of oxygen at altitude.

“He told me that since being diagnosed with cancer, he got a renewed vigor … and decided henceforth to play like his life depended on it,” Questlove said. “Amen, David. Rest in melody.”

Sanborn played Woodstock with the Butterfield Blues Band and went on to a career that included more than two dozen solo albums, gigs with the “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Saturday Night Live” bands and collaborations with Bowie, Rundgren, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, B.B. King, Maynard Ferguson, Linda Ronstadt, Elton John and others.

“RIP, David S.,” Eric Clapton said.

The members of Spyro Gyra found themselves “shocked and beyond sad” at the news, while band leader Jay Beckenstein eulogized Sanborn as “a truly great saxophonist and musician, one of the most influential of my lifetime and an artist who had an extraordinary ability to play emotionally.

“Whatever he touched, whether jazz, gospel or pop, his approach was beautiful and powerful,” Beckenstein said. “A great loss."

5/13/24

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B. B. King

photo Baron Wolman

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Martin Mull jams with B.B. King

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B.B. King - Live at the Regal - 1965

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B.B. King *September 16, 1925 

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B.B. King, Average White Band, 1973.

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B.B. King

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1982

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B.B. King par Guido Harari, Lugano, 1990.