David Demsey; Sneak Peek into the Michael Brecker Archives and Practice Notebooks, Ep 176

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Everything Saxophone Podcast Host, Donna Schwartz, spoke with Saxophonist & Educator, Dr. David Demsey, of the William Paterson Living Jazz Archives, about the newly published Practice Notebooks of Michael Brecker.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - How David met Michael Brecker
03:42 - Brecker’s 1st ALBUM & CONCERT as a leader
06:13 - Example of Mike's reaction to his own playing
12:19 - How the damage to his vocal cords led him to pursue the EWI
16:35 - Tone tips from Joe Allard
19:11 - How the William Paterson University Archives started
23:49 - How Clark Terry influenced Randy Brecker’s career
33:36 - The origin of publishing the notebooks
46:49 - Looking back to Michael’s early years; sharing old pictures from the Archives
47:45 - What got his band disqualified at a Jazz Festival
54:52 - Skunk Funk Trivia
01:03:31 - Brecker’s definition of playing outside
01:12:02 - A tip from Brecker on how to get a good sense of time
01:13:48 - A look into the recently published Practice Notebooks
01:21:09 - How to approach the patterns in this book
01:22:04 - What Michael said to David about transcribing his solos
01:34:58 - A look inside the archives
LINKS:
William Paterson University Archives: livingjazzarchives.org/
Michael Brecker Archive: livingjazzarchives.org/archiv...
David Dempsey’s Bio: www.wpunj.edu/coac/department...
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@PabloVestory 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much D. and D. !!

@ewi4000 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Donna, Dave is such a great guy! I visited the archiveand will do again. I'm another Mike Brecker archivist and will make sure my collection (many video's) will also be at the archive.

@EverythingSaxophonePodcast Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the episode. Please share it, and hopefully you can get together with David to get your collection there

@breckerfan Жыл бұрын

This is an amazing podcast! Priceless! Thank you so much and thank you David for keeping Mike’s legacy alive eternally! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Buying the book ASAP!

@EverythingSaxophonePodcast Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening, and glad you enjoyed it. Please share :)

@hornmanmusic1542 8 ай бұрын

thanks for this great, fantastic interview Donna….Dave has such an overwhelming, vast pool of sooo so interisting stories to tell….WOOW!!! I wish we could hear him in a weekly blog ☺️….fantastic storyteller….love this to hear so much bachground info on the greats 👌

@guywithdogs Жыл бұрын

I found this wonderful. Thanks for all the work, Mr. Demsey and team.

@EverythingSaxophonePodcast Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Please share :)

@mikeoxlong7533 Жыл бұрын

Around 1:05:00 talking about “Weldon Irving” should be Weldon Irvine. Composer and poet. He composed a good number of deep cuts, one that comes to mind is Mr Clean made famous by Freddie Hubbard, and “Liberated Brother” which appears on a Horace Silver record “In Pursuit of the 27th Man” that Mike and Randy were on.

@amanisax5630 10 ай бұрын

I was at that concert in Augusta Maine. He did a small clinic before it. Hearing that band warm up before we entered was hard to describe. Felt like the building was resonating from his sound. Unbelievable concert

@glenntomassi3442 Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Donna and Dave thank you for this! All great reference Dave and some of the Albums I have them all . Funny like you mentioned the young players don't know these albums. Imagine White Elephant ... Ha ha ha

@EverythingSaxophonePodcast Жыл бұрын

You are welcome -glad you liked this episode. Dave had so much knowledge to share... Please spread this video around :)

@ed.z. Жыл бұрын

Excellent podcast with a very hip host.

@EverythingSaxophonePodcast Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@JeffreySaxophoneTallNewton 9 ай бұрын

Isn't the mouthpiece that Mike used on Pilgrimage a rubber Link that Adam Niewood worked on?

@thebreathalyzer 7 ай бұрын

Weldon Irving wrote Mr. Clean, which Freddie Hubbard famously recorded. Maybe Mike lifted some of the cool lines from the head?

@Osnosis Жыл бұрын

Excerpts of his transcriptions would be educational; many transcriptions vary, and what he heard/analyzed might tell us something.

@robsudduth3978 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this podcast. Lots of wonderful information. I am surprised, however, Mr. Dempsey is unfamiliar with Jim Pepper. Jim pepper what is a wonderful Coltrane influenced tenor player who became initially well known playing with Larry Coryell and Bob Moses in the band free spirits, and early rock jazz hybrid. Jim pepper became well known as he uses Native American background to inform his work, writing the important tune Witchi Tai To. Michael was certainly influenced by peppers sound and music, and I’m sure there are citations. Pepper his own group for years and was a featured soloist with paul motions group and Charlie Heaton’s liberation music orchestra. His Selmer saxophone is in the permanent collection of the American Indian Museum in Washington DC. He really combines R&B, rock and Coltrane and a powerful sound. Also played an Otto Link.

@robsudduth3978 11 ай бұрын

But I am without a clue when it comes to the concept of Jim Pepper chords. Would love to know what they are! JIM PEPPER!!

@daviddemsey6857 11 ай бұрын

You are RIGHT of course about Jim Pepper! I just did not put 2+2 together in the course of my conversation - Jim is an amazing player, and has that very unusual Native American heritage that comes into his music and playing. It just didn't occur to me in that larger conversation...my apologies to you, and to Jim's legacy - a truly under-recognized player.