Inside

Inside

Track Listings

1. Corners (For Herbie)

2. Day Dreaming

3. Trance

4. Brother Ray

5. Lisa

6. When I'm With You

7. Naked Moon

8. Cane

9. Ain't No Sunshine

10. Miss You

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
It's rare that saxophonist David Sanborn gets a notion to do something more adventurous than sitting in with the Letterman show's band. As a king of the smooth-jazz world, why should he? Inside, however, does take a couple of chances, though nothing on the order of 1991's Another Hand. Cassandra Wilson sits in for a dry reading of Aretha's "Day Dreaming" that suggests she's best in slightly more daring company; this take doesn't improve on either the original or on Mary J. Blige's recent cover. (For a revelatory Wilson cameo, check out her version of Muddy Waters's "Country Girl" on Javon Jackson's A Look Within.) Likewise, Sting ("Ain't No Sunshine") and perennial nonentities Lalah Hathaway and Eric Benet ("When I'm with You") bring little to their guest-vocal turns. As for the seven instrumental cuts, Sanborn and producer Marcus Miller rarely rise above midtempo mush. --Rickey Wright

From Jazziz
David Sanborn feels he owes some of his latest album's success to a new recording process: doing it at home. The alto saxophonist recorded the majority of Inside at his New York City loft. "It allowed me a certain amount of freedom," Sanborn says. "I could record when I felt like it, and not have to be rushed about the whole process. I've learned as a musician, you have to kind of ambush yourself psychologically - trick yourself into saying, 'This is just a demo.' " The results are what Sanborn calls the most personal album of his career.

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