Michael Brecker - Invitation - 1985 video free download

Bryant Jackson

I don't think brecker was the most influential tenor player after Coltrane in my opinion that's Joe Lovano and anyways it's not a competition of who's best and the first or the most influential and besides brecker takes his sound from bob berg.....totally sounds like bob berg.....I love brecker though one of the best ever.....

Sludgepump

Well, that was up to Brecker's usual standard! Mind bogglingly uckin AMAZING!

Music Education For All

Thanks for sharing that. Brecker was soooooo good. RIP MB

John Carter

Yeah, but is he living it? :-)

Brian Mika

9 people dislike jazz

Lucas Quinamo

And, by the way, you should listen to his stuff before saying these stuff in the internet. Listen to his beautiful ballad book, The Nearness Of You, listen to Michael Brecker (album), Sea Glass is touching, listen to Delta City Blues, (or the whole Two Blocks From The Edge album). Listen to his Brecker Bros. stuff and see his hability to play every funky music. It's not personal, but don't be so "jazz rabid", this only destroy your capability to appreciate art in it's root (originality).

Lucas Quinamo

Well, you talk about art as if your opinion is what define art. You can't say what is and what is not art. Art is something so embracing that you cannot say what is not art. Brecker made art. Everything he made was art. You're being egocentric when you say that your opinion is the universal truth. Brecker is the most influent tenor sax player after Coltrane, deal with it, there's nothing you can do: he is one the greatest sax player of all time and his music changed jazz.

Lucas Quinamo

You say about Brecker's dissonance and then you say that he's not at same pedestal as Trane. Hold a second, hear Trane's album Interestellar Spaceship or Meditations and hear what dissonance really is. If you listen to jazz thinking of getting away from dissonance, you shouldn't listen to jazz. Brecker is the most influent tenor sax player after Coltrane. Your opinion is really irrelevant, so you should stop saying it before people starts thinking you as a joke. Or maybe they've already done it

Truttakungen

You work as a clown in your ordinary dayjob?... Cause you should'nt stop!.. you make me laugh by thoose really "talented" comments about Brecker's unsyncopated technocratic dissonance.... XD

stuntpickle

LOL! "Technocratic dissonance?" Yeah, you should check out all those crazy, atonal records Brecker made with Steely Dan. Maybe if you pulled your head out of the Omnibook and listened to some jazz from, say, the last thirty years, you'd realize how ridiculous what you're saying is. Brecker is regarded by those who have a clue as having been a fairly tame, mainstream sax player. That shit about fusion being some corporate conspiracy is hilarious. Was the last Miles album you heard Kind of Blue?

Jon Weiss

I would not consider the 5000 or so jazz musicians who idolize or think Brecker to be one of the greats "the masses." Just look on Ytube and see who Brecker performed and recorded with, often as a sideman or featured soloist: Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Paul Simon, Steve Gadd, Pat Metheny, bobby McFerrin, etc. These are the top musicians in their field. He also founded the Brecker Bros., one the seminal groups in fusion music. "nuff said.

Jon Weiss

First of all, this was recorded live with who knows what camera so the fidelity does not adequately describe Brecker's great sound. Two, great chops is what's needed to play jazz. Thirdly, if you hear this as dissonant, it only reflects the limitations and inadequacy of you EAR. Brecker is the most transcribed, most idolized, and most revered of all sax players after Trane, that is a fact. I hope you don't believe that Global Warming is a myth as well.

Jon Weiss

I guess you can't relate to what's happening. This is jazz,you can't get more swinging than this, maybe Trane and Elvin. Brecker is definitely one of the top tenor players of all time, right up there with Sonny Rollins, Lester Young and Sonny Still. Trane is on another level, beyond jazz.

Steven Brown

They took a beautiful ballad and hard bopped it. Sounded pretty good anyway.

IronChef3

Then you obviously have never listened to Steps Ahead's Smokin' in the Pit or Corea's Three Quartets; not to the mention the fact that drummers the likes of Vinnie Colaiuta have ripped his licks off at every turn.

Wesley Case

Joey Calderazzo??? Where's his solo!

boxing1000

inspiring an surpassing are two different things, comprende?Of course Mike had his own voice but he wasn't an innovator like Trane and Bird.

subframer

as if bird and trane had no influences?? everyone is inspired by someone prior. duh. in addition to being the greatest virtuoso on his instrument ever, hands down, mike's approach to harmony, while perhaps not as game changing as bird/trane, is distinct, powerful, and devastating in its beauty.....

navymusician822

8 five-alarm fuckups in the world!

Jon Weiss

gRDEt aolo. Ahowa how importNT greT SRUMMWE IA lao.

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