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| Jazz for aficionados pjw, never did catch Steps Ahead 😕 | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, among others that I can’t remember I heard (Seventh Ave. South): Breckers, Mike Manieri band, Steve Grossman, Woody Shaw, Mike Stern, Art Blakey with a very young Wynton Marsalis and my favorite show there, Joe Henderson. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Curiousjim, unfortunately I am not aware of any cd’s of bootleg recordings. Several things on YouTube. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Excellent comments, mahgister! | |
| Jazz for aficionados A 23 year old Michael Brecker with Horace Silver live in concert. Astounding solo on the first tune Liberated Brother. I like the youthful rawness of his sound. In some ways even more obvious than in later years that he was right out of the Col... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Personally, I wouldn’t call the first ten years of M Brecker’s output “crappy”. It’s a matter of the style of the music which we may or may not like. The playing however was always on a high level. It is true that most of his output during the 70’... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Another favorite. May seem a little “lite” on first listen, but absolutely gorgeous saxophone playing. It was also one of Michael’s favorites: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hWpfLjtwxRrrhkMSbsZUEyrXwDz9HRd&si=kXeHAV_k1qJRtgPd | |
| Jazz for aficionados A few thoughts about Michael Brecker. First, the notion that to possess supreme technical prowess as an instrumentalist necessarily means that the player does not bring enough emotional content to the music is false. Likewise, the notion that pl... | |
| Jazz for aficionados curiousjim, impossible question to answer. As a leader, Tales From The Hudson is up there with Time is of the Essence and, of course, his last album Pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is fantastic and I love it in part for sentimental reasons….if you know ... | |
| Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby? Two more: - Ignore the cynics. - Be careful with the opinions of those who never mention the music. | |
| Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby? - Any information lost or distorted at the source cannot be retrieved or “improved” further upstream. - To one degree or another, everything matters. - Try (really hard) to attend at least a couple of live acoustic (or at least minimally amplifi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You’re welcome both. It was said that one of the reasons that Brecker practiced so much was that so many other tenor players copied his style that he felt that he needed to stay one step ahead (😉). One more. This one featuring both Grolnick and ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://youtu.be/_TwCRbYMyDk?si=LOqroKZ_Sgrpjpw0 | |
| Jazz for aficionados McCoy Tyner course, not Tyler 🙄 | |
| Jazz for aficionados How could I (almost) forget McCoy Tyler’s “Infinity” Featuring Michael Brecker?Outstanding! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0071F7B5F1DB1ED1&si=RUlYjstJr2IfI8ZN |