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| Jazz for aficionados Fabulous! Can’t thank you enough, mahgister, as I was not aware of this recording. My favorite drummer (well, maybe Tony Williams…maybe not). Darnett Garrett!!!! No point in commenting on Brecker, Gene Perla on bass caused me to think of the reco... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Good! | |
| Jazz for aficionados Bob Mintzer is a remarkably talented musician. Great tenor player and equally great composer/orchestrator. His playing style is similar to Brecker’s, but more measured and restrained with less fire than Brecker. Very logical, the way that his writ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? **** Music is first of all mathematics not art in a usual sense. **** Wow! Remarkable comment which explains a great deal. | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? If to be an “audiophile” means that one has to completely dismiss the idea that there are aspects of the experience of listening to music (any art) that cannot be completely described via numbers/measurements (of any kind), then count me out. To b... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thank you mahgister. | |
| Jazz for aficionados For anyone interested in learning about Michael Brecker the man and what he went through at the end of his life: https://lovehopestrength.org/susan-brecker-continues-jazz-musician-husbands-legacy-of-help/ https://youtu.be/bYcFb14O32k?si=I5K--T_A... | |
| 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... |