My thought!

So rippin

Classic Mike Brecker sound!

the final boss of tenor sax

Can tell, Brecker was sweating like a lot while he was playing the solo in this video.

show-off... i hope you dropped your hot-dog.... lol only joking dude....

Such a fantastic performance, wow! Must have been amazing!

@@DylanEichenbergTahoe ha it was other worldly for sure!

Imagino que foi muito legal mesmo!!

I wouldn't say that. MIchael was great but Kamasi Washington can run circles around him

@@Steve-mp7by And Steve Coleman would run marathons around Kamasi Washington. Also, add Greg Osby to the list of utter sax gods that y'all don't care about because you cant immediately comprehend their approach.

@@percyvolnar8010 Yes there are others but Michael was still a great player. Saying he's the greatest is incorrect because Coltrane holds that title forever

@@Steve-mp7by No. Michael was a great player. The problem i have isnt with him as much as it is people who are quick to claim hes god when they dont know anything about bebop, its deeply Black American roots and where this vocabulary came from . Not even Coltrane holds the title of Greatest.... BIRD HOLDS THAT TITLE. Jazz hasn't really changed since him and Dizzy brought about bebop. :)

@@percyvolnar8010 Tenor sax greatest is Coltrane. Alto sax is Bird. Everybody knows that

Bingo! Mind blowing.. so perfectly placed.. takes it to the next level -> jaw dropping😮

haha, 😂 you need sometimes challenges in life, and Michael Brecker is a lovely one

Yes Louis CK was a jazz drummer, then he was the teacher from the Incredibles before becoming a comedian.

Perverted those drums

That’s adam nussbaum on the drums

No, ot's Adam Nussbaum

the 2004 Middelheim jazz festival appearance was incredible, that was my potential only chance although I didn't know him yet as I got into Brecker when he was already ill

I feel that way about Coltrane. If I had of only been born several years earlier than I was, perhaps that could have been a reality. I did see Brecker a few times, however, and that was an amazing experience. I wish I could have seen him play more.

@bob_dubois go see Chris Potter, it's a similar feel for me as someone who saw Brecker 3 times.

​@@spew2864I did see Potter a couple time, last time was last week in Gent. Don't know if my taste has changed or his playing did but I couldn't make any sense out of the too many notes he played... Also, why is he constantly touching the altissimo E range? Play soprano if you want to play that high 😳

Bro this reeks of 80s jazz. Today, you can kind of stylistically play anything and get away with it so you're right on that front, but this sounds old as hell.

All the best music is kind of like that IMO, it manages to touch a kind of universal musical quality that people will appreciate and eventually rediscover no matter the era they're in.

​@@ryno4ever433is just like Kenny g

Thats the kinda awesome Thing that Jazz doesn't get Bad over The Years Like Pop or Rock Music. And they try it then we think Back at Electro Swing 😂😂

Could have* and wtf do you mean not at the same time?

These two are indeed smashing albums! the sound of a true voice on the instrument

I am glad someone has the same opinion as I do. Especially the first ("Michael Brecker"). It is a smokeshow from the first til the last note played. And the band is a lineup of galactic improvisers (Metheny, Kirkland, Grolnick) and rhythm section players (DeJohnette, Haden). It is an underrated record IMHO.

@JeffJacobsonMusic First MB self-titled album has always been my favorite album of his -- including all the excellent albums where he is a sideman (80/81, Citiscape, Night, Infinity, Double Double You, etc). His solos are absolutely burning -- and the solo on Original Rays on that album blows my mind every time I hear it. Not to mention how good Syzygy, Choices, and Nothing Personal sound. I can still remember the first time I put it on in ~1998.

Wtf! Lol the theme/motif sounds almost exactly like the recorder part on that one ATHF episode w/ the furries hahahahaha

To me this melody sounds like an 80s sitcom theme, so I'll vote differently LOL :)

Absolutely, feel exactly the same. I'm was just a few years to young to have bee n able to catch him, which makes it even a bit more painful with Brecker than say older heroes of mine. I got into his music and pretty much obsessed aged 14 (2005) and I remember checking his websites homepage where they put that he was ill and getting treatment. I visited weekly, just to expect to find an announcement that he'd recovered an would be touring soon, until one day his website in early 2007 said he passed away. Now aged 16 and being so motivated by his playing at that point to try and persue a carreer in saxophone playing, I absolutely couldn't believe it. My naive teenager braing assumed everything would be fine at some point, as the traditional Hollywood films always said. That year I made my endwork in high school on his life and transcribed Straphanging from live with the Wdr Big Band as a case study. That gigantic struggle to play and transcribe (it really was way too hard) was the prelude to what this channel would become.

I did catch Mike Stern once somewhere downtown sometime in the mid '80s... those years are, um, pretty fuzzy for me lol. Helluva guitarist.

@@SharpElevenMusic Ah well. You still hear Brecker all the time, sort of, he changed the very vocabulary of the instrument.

Once (somwhere in the beginnig of 2000) LeClub (a jazz club in Moscow, Russia) announced a Brecker Brothers show, we bought tickets, and to my great regret Mike wasn't participating (he was badly ill at that time already) but his name (what a cheat!) was written on the bill board.

@@Chess4Net that's too bad!

Tenor madness?

yeah, exactly! That Fm is so strong on it's own, but placed on the C7 you get a kind of sus4 b13 vibe. That's what is the "uncanny valley" here is imo, it's sound so recognisable (duh, Fm..) and so hip cause it's over the C7 with some altered notes.

@@SharpElevenMusic So full analysis when ;D?

I think it's the album before, Brecker's first solo album is called just "Michael Brecker".

@@SharpElevenMusicho yes you're right :( my awful mistake, sorry :(

So do all the guitarists in the audience

Sure people choose who they want to emulate, but people will always sound like themselves.

There are many! Check out someone like Melissa Aldana.

Thats adam nussbaum

😂

@@SharpElevenMusic Laughter is good medicine and if the recipient is not receptive, then increase dosage 👊🏽

Hi, yes, its a Bb transposed score to match the tenor saxophone key

Nope

That's all ok and thanks for sharing. But to seasoned saxophonists and/or listeners, this sounds nothing like Kenny G to be honest. The level of depth in music, sound, rhythm and improvisation is bevond anything I've heard from Kenny G. They both played some tenor sax, and imo Kenny's best playing was on tenor with Jeff Lorber before he got this massive name

@@SharpElevenMusic ngl i listened again this morning and appreciated it more. I think maybe its just not a sax style im massively into, do think its miles better than kenny g i take that back haha. maybe i was also a bit too baked last night too tbh