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Pilgrimage

by: Michael Brecker

Release Date May 21, 2007
Musicians love of mike brecker goes back to the seventies, as i am 49 and a professional musician and a coltrane and miles lover and mclaughlin, metheny and many more, one can say this is a landmark recording that in years to come will stand as a testament to one of the greatest improvising musicians in my generation.
I hope that the younger generation from getting into mike brecker and understanding the great jazz past will get into this music.

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Nearness Of You: The Ballad Book

by: Michael Brecker

Release Date June 25, 2001
Superb band,great tunes and one great whopping groove that goes all the way through this recording. Given his Jazz fusion origins, it has taken Michael Brecker far too long to be accepted as the true giant of the tenor sax that he is. What makes this album great is that it is both commercial and cookin' at the same time.A great album worth exploring. Highlight? Herbie Hancock's Chan's Song, truly beautiful.

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Papa Lips

by: Bob Mintzer, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine, Don Grolnick, David Sanborn

Release Date July 30, 2007
An amazing i reckon everyone into big band this is a must have cd. From the first note to the last it was amazing and i'm only 16 so buy it!

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Randy Brecker/Michael Brecker - Some Skunk Funk [2007]

by: Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker

Release Date October 09, 2006
A magnificent concert. The Breckers are almost unbelievably virtuosic and the rest of the performers are all top class. The arrangements give them no quarter and the great "advanced" swing bands of the past - Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Quincy Jones, etc might well have flinched if faced with them ! The WDR Big Band are terrific and back up (and solo from time to time) faultlessly. Best of all that nauseous intrusion - ths Vocalist - is completely absent Bliss.

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Some Skunk Funk [Hybrid SACD]

by: Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker

Release Date January 30, 2006
A magnificent concert. The Breckers are almost unbelievably virtuosic and the rest of the performers are all top class. The arrangements give them no quarter and the great "advanced" swing bands of the past - Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Quincy Jones, etc might well have flinched if faced with them ! The WDR Big Band are terrific and back up (and solo from time to time) faultlessly. Best of all that nauseous intrusion - ths Vocalist - is completely absent Bliss.

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Double Double You

by: Kenny Wheeler, Michael Brecker, John Taylor, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette

Release Date March 05, 1990
A magnificent concert. The Breckers are almost unbelievably virtuosic and the rest of the performers are all top class. The arrangements give them no quarter and the great "advanced" swing bands of the past - Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Quincy Jones, etc might well have flinched if faced with them ! The WDR Big Band are terrific and back up (and solo from time to time) faultlessly. Best of all that nauseous intrusion - ths Vocalist - is completely absent Bliss.

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Gathering Of Spirits

by: Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Saxophone Summit

Release Date September 27, 2004
A magnificent concert. The Breckers are almost unbelievably virtuosic and the rest of the performers are all top class. The arrangements give them no quarter and the great "advanced" swing bands of the past - Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Quincy Jones, etc might well have flinched if faced with them ! The WDR Big Band are terrific and back up (and solo from time to time) faultlessly. Best of all that nauseous intrusion - ths Vocalist - is completely absent Bliss.

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Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 3: John Ambercrombie and Friends [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

by: Michael Brecker, John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson

Release Date March 30, 2004
A magnificent concert. The Breckers are almost unbelievably virtuosic and the rest of the performers are all top class. The arrangements give them no quarter and the great "advanced" swing bands of the past - Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Quincy Jones, etc might well have flinched if faced with them ! The WDR Big Band are terrific and back up (and solo from time to time) faultlessly. Best of all that nauseous intrusion - ths Vocalist - is completely absent Bliss.

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Directions In Music: Live At Massey Hall

by: Herbie Hancock Michael Brecker Roy Hargrove

Release Date June 17, 2002
I had this CD mentally pegged as one of my favorite "Herbie Hancock CDs." It was mentally and physically filed under "Hancock."

Big mistake.

As a huge Michael Brecker fan I... was quite embarrassed by my mental laziness.

Now, when I rediscovered my copy of DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC as a Herbie Hancock AND Michael Brecker AND Roy Hargrove AND John Patitucci AND Brian Blade CD the joy was off the scale.

A remarkable CD which brings together some of the finest jazz musucians of our time playing their best.

Just wish I cudda been there...

Kirtland Peterson

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Infinity

by: Mccoy Tyner & Michael Brecker

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I had this CD mentally pegged as one of my favorite "Herbie Hancock CDs." It was mentally and physically filed under "Hancock."

Big mistake.

As a huge Michael Brecker fan I... was quite embarrassed by my mental laziness.

Now, when I rediscovered my copy of DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC as a Herbie Hancock AND Michael Brecker AND Roy Hargrove AND John Patitucci AND Brian Blade CD the joy was off the scale.

A remarkable CD which brings together some of the finest jazz musucians of our time playing their best.

Just wish I cudda been there...

Kirtland Peterson