I always love coming to Japan, the fans are so great and one of my favorite places to play in the world are the Blue Note clubs in Japan. I am really looking forward to playing them and seeing all of my Japanese fans once again. I am bringing the band that has not been to Japan in three or four years: Ricky Peterson, Richard Patterson, Gene Lake and Nicky Moroch. We are going to play a lot of the older stuff that we haven’t played for a while; some things from the back catalog that we maybe haven’t ever played live. We don’t know specifically what those songs are going to be but they will be songs in the funk category. There will be a lot of surprises for our fans and in some cases surprises to us. David Sanborn