I didn’t realize how significant it was at the time, but I got to play as the changeover act from Brecker’s band (this lineup) to Paul Shaffer and the World’s Most Dangerous Band on the Jacksonville Jazz fest. (Yes, we were scared to death to play after witnessing THIS astounding ensemble. 😅🎶 Crazy thing is they were all such sweet, supportive cats to boot. Joey, Adam, Mike, Jeff and Michael were just dudes offstage, but damn superheroes on it. Rest In Peace sweet Michael. You are so missed… 😔

the nightEVERYTHING CHANGED!im listening to this in 2023 and it still hold up . michael had no real idea just how far ahead he was at the time with that EWI and looper. a whole generation of loopers had yet to be evn born yet and now look at the landscape! THANK YOU MR BRECKER. YOU CHANGED EVERTHING more than you could have known at the time. wow

Do not forget ever the great Jeff Andrews an underrated musician but truly gorgeous 🎉

I feel this period in nyc and jazz was special . I studied with Jeff for years and we talked so it this period of his musical development. Thankyou for posting this !

From all human beings that ever walked on this planet, nobody went so deep on the saxophone as Michael Brecker. His solo on "Nothing Personal" is simply astonishing, as always.

Incredible Mickael... the master was in the place

WOW, I was there!! I remember that concert! I was very young but still present in my mind

80s best brecker period.....plus 1st....steps ahead acoustic album......still love this music.....years later

Great flugeel horn solo amazing

Brecker. The best!

16:26 was there a spider on the piano or something?

I"m so glad to have this. The best I've seen by this band. Joey C is a cut above. The way he can still pull together a solo that spellbinds the audience after ten minutes of blues changes.

Thanks Louis! There was just something about this lineup that was so special. A true band! This is the band that blew my mind, and really the first band that I'd seen Mike live with.

This is one of my favourite concerts

Thanks for sharing ! Fantastic Michael Brecker as always. Genius.

No words can ever come close, cheers Louis

chime this sounds incredible. Love Mike stern

Adam Nussbaum on drums. Fantastic!

Awesome show! Thank you, Louis!

Thank you for the wonderful videos, Louis! You're very generous!

Thank you Louis! This made my day.

Fantastic upload, nice work Louis.

The "Saxosynth" EWI, with Mike Stern and Band at the controls, offers Michael Brecker the tools to high light the magnificent Rock-Funk-Fusion side of him, flavored with Organic Real Jazz opulence. Oh, how Coltrane would have adored, admired and praised Michael who was the epitome of Genius - with an upper-cased "G"! (Mike perhaps used to practice in his "sleep" - which was fantastic, as it paid great dividends) In "Skylark", I can hear the sound-voice and style of Ernie Watts; can you? Michael Brecker was virtuosic in part because he was a well-disciplined, well-schooled and decent student of impeccable character and exemplary citizenship. Thanks to You Tube and the video posting; the world got to know the "Greatest" saxophonist of HIS time. Talent and genius - not "who knows whom" - must be the foundation and gateway to fame, fortune (and financial success) Brecker, Stern and the drummer have involuntarily been "pushing" the trumpeter who does a fantastic performance. MB:RIP!

thanks for this video

i was there....

Thank you 1000 x Louis :-)

Thanks Brother !

thanks Louis, great

Il trombettista Franco Ambrosetti è veramente un grande.

scortching rock and rolling stern at 1 hour 4 minutes onward...jeff very happy

It's neat to hear the precursor to some of the ideas he used later (at Lugano in 1998) in Delta City Blues at around 13:35! The same licks can be heard at around 2:35 in the later video.

this is incredible!

VERY GOOD!

he is a fantastic sax player!

25:49 the flugelhorn player learned a valuable lesson- jump on that first solo when you are sharing the stage with Michael Brecker bc he’s not gonna wait for you if you hesitate- ha!

Folk talk about Jaco!? Well, Andrews' improv? Wow!

I was going to say, with respect to my current fav tune; original rays (49:30-on ish) that things were looking shaky for MB after two years shedding this tune after Newport '87..., but the oberheim-powered synth-sax solo prior to the main theme is restorative... the solo the record should have had instead of that silly unintelligent chorusing... Yngwie Malmsteen would have been running to the toilet after hearing some of these lines..(around 51:00)... Joey C. gets the opening solo which is tastino... i love this performance, thanks for posting..

16:26 Joey and the fly ! ^o^

what happened at 1:19:29 break a reed or something, seems pissed

peccato che la qualita' è scarsa ...ottimo concerto

1 00:00:00 Chime This 2 00:11:35 Gossip 3 00:14:24 Skylark 4 00:24:37 Nothing Personal 5 00:45:22 Original Rays 6 01:10:13 Suspone

Mb in his prime

check out the girl at 4:39 - front middle.. just in awe mouth open!! :-)

13:20

@16:26 haha. What's the joke

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