Search results for "Michael Brecker"

Michael Brecker: Syzygy (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

The first 2½ minutes offer an astonishing display of Michael Brecker's uniquely muscular tenor, somersaulting and pir...

Michael Brecker: Naked Soul (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 24, 08

Sounding very much like his chief influence John Coltrane, Michael Brecker blows out some introspective and at times ...

Michael Brecker: The Mean Time (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

Michael Brecker had already passed away, after a lengthy battle with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and leukemia, bef...

McCoy Tyner featuring Michael Brecker: Flying High (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 25, 08

This cut and for that matter this album is as much a celebration of McCoy Tyner's fine post-Coltrane work and composi...

Michael Brecker: African Skies (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 27, 08

In this Michael Brecker composition, we find a wonderful example of how creatively arranged instrumen- tation played ...

Michael Brecker: Brexterity (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

Here, for the first time in his career, Michael Brecker arranged for a large ensemble with strings and woodwinds, and...

Michael Brecker: Midnight Voyage (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Before recording in an acoustic setting, Brecker was best known for his fusion dates with brother Randy, his work in ...

Michael Brecker: Song for Bilbao (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Listeners should expect transcendence from a lineup like this, and even the highest expectations are exceeded. Brecke...

Don Grolnick (with Michael Brecker): Pools (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 11, 08

“Space is the breath of art.“ – Frank Lloyd Wright An inspired harmonic architect, Grolnick designed spacious stru...

Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music June 21, 08

After the original Mahavishnu Orchestra disbanded, Billy Cobham seemed undecided as to which direction his music was ...

Billy Cobham: Taurian Matador (revised) (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 17, 08

"Taurian Matador" famously first appeared on Cobham's legendary release Spectrum. This performance, recorded live at ...

Billy Cobham: The Pleasant Pheasant (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

Billy Cobham made a 90º turn after his highly successful Spectrum fusion album. When the follow-up Crosswinds was rel...

Marc Copland: Country Home (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 23, 08

On Beyond the Missouri Sky, Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden made famous a style of music that could be called Amer...

Alex Riel: On Again, Off Again (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Lester Young vs. Coleman Hawkins. Dexter Gordon vs. Wardell Gray. Gene Ammons vs. Sonny Stitt. The tenor saxopho...

Jan Hammer: Curiosity Kills (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

Drive was Jan Hammer's first real album of original music for several years not connected in some way with television...

Herbie Hancock: Norwegian Wood (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 18, 09

On this absolutely, stunning and beautiful rendition of the Beatles classic "Norwegian Wood," Herbie Hancock enlisted...

Steps Ahead: Pools (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Steps Ahead was one of the best of the fusion groups in part because all its members were outstanding jazz players. ...

John McLaughlin: Jazz Jungle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 14, 08

For quite some time before the release of The Promise, many John McLaughlin fans had been secretly wishing that he wo...

Jack Wilkins: Invitation (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 23, 09

Jack Wilkins first impressed as the very hot guitarist in the small group that Buddy Rich led in the early '70s at hi...

Dreams: New York (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music September 11, 08

To many jazz-rock fans, Dreams was almost better known as the main spawning ground for the Brecker Brothers, Billy Co...

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