I love Funk played it in the 60's. Everyone who knows David Sanborn thinks he only plays Funk and Smooth Jazz. That's not true he plays Jazz Standard Ballads. He really plays anything even straight ahead bebop.
This proves it.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=try+a+little+tenderness+sanborn

This one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYQE2JrFIns

I like anything if it's good and professional. Even Boot Scootin Boogie, Friends In Low Places, For The Good Times so on and so forth.