Michael Brecker - Oleo - 1983

[tbass325]

What's great is that NHOP doesn't strain at all in spite of his transcendent technique.

[edhendersonmusic]

staggering!



[1967dinkel]

Not a Brecker fan but you got to give the guy some credit: uber ace solo.

[overlordspencerman]

@GeoCoppens that's the 80s jazz for you (as a general trend); I dislike it, as with the replacement of grand pianos with electric pianos in Big bands.

-However, I think that NHOP is doing a good job in following brecker, listen to his rollins stuff and maybe you'll like him better - I don't like the piano comping though...

[overlordspencerman]

@GeoCoppens that's the 80s jazz for you (as a general trend); I dislike it, as with the replacement of grand pianos with electric pianos in Big bands.

-However, I think that NHOP is doing a good job in following brecker, listen to his rollins stuff and maybe you'll like him better

[Vapor419]

I hate those people who set the bar...and everyone else feels like the midget who knows that there's no way in hell that they're getting over that bar.

[GeoCoppens]

Being a virtuoso means NOTHING in itself! In the years of this recording bass amplifiers made the bass sound ugly and were set too loud! Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen was not an influential bassist. His playing is derived from Scott LaFaro and/or Gary Peacock. The "music" here is vacuous.

[GeoCoppens]

How boring! Awfull bass sound and lines.

[scottmorseguitar]

This is the most balls I've ever heard in a rhythm changes.

[MSmithjazz]

Who are the 19 tragically hip porch squirrels who disliked this video?

[onlyonutube]

... and equally as hard attempting to play in this style is transcribing this solo in the first place. Wow Louis - you have my unwaivering respect.

[ewi4000]

@onlyonutube

Thanks!! Accidentely read your post! It is indeed a great solo, and was fun to transcibe.

[Vizalkar]

Ok, maybe he is a good saxophonist, but I'm sad to say that this is nothing but purée.

[dingalingle]

@Vizalkar Shame on you.....nothing Brecker did was puree.

[gjbsaxman94]

@dingalingle that guy obviously has terrible taste. he prolly thinks kenny g is the best horn player in the world

[confoozled3737]

@Vizalkar Go try to tell any university jazz saxophone professor that and listen to his response. Or don't, and save yourself some embarrassment. Michael Brecker was a down-to-earth, humble dude. I'd suggest wasting your breath on a saxophonist that doesn't deserve the accolades and admiration he receives. Kenny G, for example.

[whatsyourstory1]

@confoozled3737 Shall I tell you who doesn't waste their breath? Kenny G. He can do circular breathing, thus meaning he is obviously the best saxophonist in the world beacause he can play one note for 10 minutes. I mean how meaningful is that? Like seriously, who is this Michael Brecker guy? He's shit compared to Kenny G.

I feel dirty for saying that.

[whatsyourstory1]

@barismertpeker Mate, I was joking...

[ranjithshegde]

@whatsyourstory1 I pity people like you who bow down to jackasses like Kenny G and have the audacity call him better than Michael Brecker....

[TheMultikiT]

POR FAVOR SUBAN STEP GROUP  CON MIKE MENERRIE Y PETER OSTIAN

[bob22222222222222100]

i fell asleep listening to this. when i woke up.....i felt stronger....more powerful

[MojikaBuendia]

Lastima que cortan el video cuando empieza el solo de bajo!! :(

[murilomorello]

was the solo transcribed? o0

[padleynj]

Who could possibly play better than this???

[monktrane325]

yup

[Mexichink488]

DAMN BRUH I ACTUALLY JUST HAD AN ORGASM LISTENING TO THIS SHT. THANK YOU MR MIKE BRECKER

[kumshayev]

yeah, whos on bass

?

[boastingkitty]

@kumshayev its neils henning orsted pederson or nhop for short

[ridingroy]

How can you possibly play better than this?!!! Probably the greatest straight ahead player ever...

[TrippinFlys]

Damn, who is that bassist?

[harrysmeltekop]

@TrippinFlys

Probably Miels Hennig Orstad Pedersen?

[rmoraespinto]

Is that the great Nils O-P on bass?

[aiyanaskye1]

I'm sorry...MB ......embodied the best of......every one wants to be him or ...his tone.......gone but not forgotten.....1970s......prese­nt...not a better....tenor musician...just give up...posers!!!

[RBeckles]

That flat 9 is so damn hip!

[gwalkron]

I remember seeing this when it was broadcast, late one Monday night, on C4 in the UK. Still amazing nearly 30 years later. They also played Brecker's 'Take A Walk' which is on Youtube and 'Coral', the Keith Jarrett ballad.

[jazzuffe]

I think they both knew they did something x-tra. NHØP & Michael Brecker.

[jazzuffe]

Please, friends. Look at the coolness of NHØP in this moment of music history.

[jazzuffe]

With that bass-playyer.. Yiiahhaah. Probably the greatest moment in jazz and music history.

[pchelpdave]

Haha Brecker caught me off guard at the beginning of the solo section. Then I realized he was playing in B instead of Bb.

[qiitxx]

George maras on bass? Anybody know?

[Baltzy24]

@qiitxx Niels Henning Orsted-Pederson

[MrBootify]

The White

Coltrane...

Super ;-)

[GrantSmithBass]

Great playing...but it cuts off just as the bass solo starts....!!!!!!!!!! Which is also sounding very very hip. Cheers for the upload....its good to watch some great music . G

[unclejunglebass]

this solo is so amazing. yall should check out mehldau's version of CTA if you dig this.

[tobihai13]

der bassiest...hamma

[sadizes]

what mouthpiece is he playing in this video?

[alirzb]

@sadizes

Dukoff

[gwalkron]

@sadizes Dukoff D9

[scylla019]

fuck, the video cut off right in front of the blazing fast double bass solo.

[gregtron111]

Wish I could let Brecker know that, 28 years later, this recording is rocking my world.

[JohnTowers1]

TRE-MEN-DO

[mikeyspoon]

Is that George Mraz playing bass? To walk that fast... to groove that strong... for that long?

bastards!

[Musicenthusiasm]

@mikeyspoon

It's NHØP.

[plenon8]

@Musicenthusiasm Who else can play with such intensity but keep such composure?

[JMBELK]

@mikeyspoon I think NHOP

[Helomxx]

only brecker can just sit on the flat 9 at the begginging of a solo

[gmarodin]

quem nao gostou chupe minha rola

[lemusicos57]

Very difficult to play !! 

[imakedookie]

this whole thing is the bass solo.

[ironcross427]

where the fuck is that bass solo??!!?!?!?!?!?!

[tutten321]

ahhh its NHØP in the backround.

[elimenohpee182]

I'm so glad I got to meet this guy before he passed. Such a nice guy, and the best player of our generation imo.

[jazzuffe]

NHØP, missed, missed, the one and only. Have heard the here cut "solo" and... say no more!

[shizohal]

@jazzuffe Where's the solo?? Man, I wanna hear that SO BAD.

[05ric]

Damn!! that was brilliant !!! (picking my mouth off the floor).

[Efferion]

That was fucking nuts.

[alessiomainardi75]

Ho visto la luce

[mapsyrup]

this bassist is beast...

[Salamu29]

cel mai mare din lume!

[coosoorlog]

NHØP owns!

[SidewalkFrequencies]

I can't stand brecker, this is like listening to my car manual on saxophone.

[alirzb]

@SidewalkFrequencies

So you don't get it

[Isaxman]

@SidewalkFrequencies STRONGLY disagree. Also, who do you like to listen to?

[ironcross427]

this guy got nothing on kenny g. he just plays a bunch of notes, but kenny has real soul....

and OMG that first note is so wrong! he fuckin sucks

[dontevenstartme]

@ironcross427 kenny g? who plays out of tune, claims to be an improvising jazz musician but has no knowledge of jazz improvisation - as is evident in his over use of the blues and pentatonic scales and who still makes most of his money from covers of pop songs?

[ironcross427]

@dontevenstartme A. I am sorry that was my friend on my account, posting random shit.

B. He started on the b9 which i think is really badass, hah

C. Type in kenny g killing it on search, its fuckin funny, they it shows kenny G in the video playing but a john coltrane recording in the background...haha

[jthekk2]

@dontevenstartme coltrane used mostly pentatonics over giant steps...

[DrewYTS]

@dontevenstartme coltrane also hardly ever played in tune. he was always a little sharp. it was on purpose though.

[BonefidePsychonaut]

jesus. it's more than one bar per second. That's a bit crazy. I'm sure you could slow this down and it'd still be just as tasty and precise.

NHOP does kill it.

[bucknermr]

Is that bassist for real???

[helanoflute]

I don't beleve He can to do this. He is very nice.

[tbarkjr]

i like how he starts off on the flat 9, what a badass

[kfcohea]

@tbarkjr

Mike was heavily influenced by Trane and this solo shows that influence. Check out some of Trane's 60s solos and you'll see what I'm talking about. Not that it's bad to come out of someone. It all depends who you copy. Brecker out of Trane. Rollins out of Hawk. Getz out of Lester. Every alto player in the 40s and 50s out of Bird. Keeps the flow happening in the family tree.

[ratiocinativeness]

@tbarkjr I know, my old private sax teacher would yell at me for starting out my solo with an altered harmonic like that lol

[bassdrumbone64]

@ratiocinativeness I guess that's why he's your old teacher. You found a new one right?

[ratiocinativeness]

@bassdrumbone64 well my old private sax teacher was a bebop guy, not a post bop/contemporary jazz player. He rarely inserted tense chord harmonics like Michael brecker did at the beginning of his solo here. That's why my teacher would have got on me about that. He was a good teacher... helped me get good enough with jazz and improv to be in the maryland all state jazz band and get accepted to various reputable music schools w. scholarship offerings. I don't have a teacher now... looking....

[ratiocinativeness]

@bassdrumbone64 I'd kill to get lessons from someone like Chris Potter or improv lessons from pianist Joey Calderazzo... I love their modern styles and use of harmonics.

[pasdrew]

who is the bass player?

[bajerovaquero]

@pasdrew NHOP

[charleysax]

The bassist is Niels Henning Orsted-Pedersen.

[granger18trains]

Ah Michael, wish you were still around but you have pleased and inspired me and thank you for that !

[danshepify]

Shizzle. NHOP and Brecker, RIP you bad ass mofos

[Spimp4]

Wow i started listening to this when i first started sax like 4 years ago, i didn't get it, and i came back to it each year trying to figure out what the hell is going on in this solo. now i hear things i never heard 4 years ago. this is so crazy

[1979saxman]

you can get this transcription online - it won't let me post the url but just do the google search for Michael Brecker Transcriptions. If you still can't find it, send me an email and i'll give you the link

[1979saxman]

you can get this transcription online

[sean33313]

......... The fucking upright sounds like an electric lmfao

[ash9012345]

wow i think im better than im and im 10

[charley12345678901]

@ash9012345 I think im better than im? Doesn't really make sense...

[simpsonfan96]

@ash9012345 faggot



[bobsunda]

Highly Trained and perfect musician!! NOHP , i love the way he play the bass XD

[IamSimonMan]

WHERE'S THE BASS SOLO!?!?! I NEED IT

[gwalkron]

@IamSimonMan Pretty sure that this was how the show ended, when it was first broadcast: a fadeout into a catfood ad or something!

[IamSimonMan]

@gwalkron WHAT THE BALLS!?!?!?! That's just unfair

[littlebones18]

@1:11 Holy shit. That's a line.

[billlarry]

Fuck...why they cut the goddamn bass solo out!! NOOOOO!!!!!!

[orqsilva]

This is a great solo. You have to rank MB as one of the all time great tenor players. He is one of the few that has been able to extend on what Coltrane was doing.

As for burn, FGAIT. He is unrelenting. Of course Bird and Trane were the gods of the saxohpone, but I would put him right up there with Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, and Dexter.

[pobinr]

Prefer tunes myself to this note diareha. Never could spell di arra.

Die your rear whatever !

[Freenex]

17 people have clicked the dislike button because music education has been cut in schools.

[DomPusey]

I love that however many breakthroughs I have in my playing, however much I feel like I'm improiving, there is always Brecker to show me that I'm not very good.

[gwalkron]

This was broadcast on TV 4 in the UK when we still had jazz on TV! I can still remember seeing it......like the fucking Sermon on the Mount.

[jpmteixeira]

NHOP is sick ! 

[Owner7790]

this solo is just fucking ridiculous.

[AmundLauritzen]

Rhythm Changes on Steroids!

[Snoohi1]

NHOP is just amazing... Brecker too

[baliwas]

anyone got a link to the rest of this? that bass solo was getting crazy!

[mrgone78]

the solo totally draws you in from the first note...!!

[MrDavidzakarian]

@mrgone78 that because he is playing a half step above the tonic.

in the classical harmonic point of new a "wrong note"

[witecheck]

now i will be starting end of my music :)

[supahsekzy]

this video shits on my life

[willythefundrummer]

John Christenszen Drums, Philip Catherine Guitar, Gordon Beck Piano, N.H.O.P. Bass, The Kenny Wheeler Quintet.

[jazzuffe]

Fantastic, fantastic, bit NHØP solo is missing!!

[jazzuffe]

Why in hell!!! is NHØP:s solo cut of??? Sheisse, it is as great as Michaels.-

[MrElinehan]

Great playing.........

[MrElinehan]

I love Brecker.........great big sound and extensive harmonic knowledge.....and emotion....

[leetheviolet]

and NHOP solo?

[skingsdoc]

Yes Bassist is NHOP great technique

[witecheck]

@skingsdoc like Niels Pedersen few years ago :)

[witecheck]

just like Niels Pedersen few years ago :)

[witecheck]

just like Niels Pedersen few years ago :)

[ronnykibass]

ma cosa suoni? cosa? come pensi? anche io ja

[leonid2026]

THANKS !!!!!! FOR EVER

[jeremyjgray]

It's NHOP all right.

They're cooking on this one.

[Elloit2345]

the closet thing to coltrane he will be missed

[Medjai411]

how clean it is!

[meirrose]

A true genius! What a mind!

[lidesnowi]

That;s GOD playing right there!

My GOD this is out of this world amazing!

[foshizle22]

a part of such an amazing generation of saxophonists coming up with joe lovano dave liebman and then more recently eric alexander chris potter kenny garret josh redman, all thrown into that group of "modern saxophonists", excellent in their own ways however there will always only be one Michael Brecker. A great musical mind cut down far too young.

[supahsekzy]

That's gotta be NHOP

[lidesnowi]

The one and only NHOP!

[Fretfreak83]

BAHH!! Why did it cut off at the bassist? He looked like he was on to something sweet! RIP Michael Brecker

[curiousnomad]

bad bad bad bad bad motherf@#ker!!!!!!!

[thagodfather007]

this guy is bad ass!!

[Bddau]

This guy was a beast. What a legend.

[xxtheklonexx]

@Bddau its fans like all of us that keep him alive in our hearts. he will be deeply missed.

[jimburp]

go white boys!

[63Brummie]

Is that Jon Christiansen???

[Hellraiser8716]

that guy is sick at the upright bass!!

[theinvisiblelight]

agreed. hes right on top of it, man

[larry3393]

Hey

DOes any1 kno if they substituted the chords in this version? Are they just playing over Cmin during A sections to get dorian sound?

thanks

[copedogg888]

the rhythm section is playing all the standard chords for rhythm changes, but Brecker is doing some alterations and substitutions, as he always does.

[songsmadeforyou]

for at least the first chorus brecker plays everything up a half step

[pablosaxo]

@songsmadeforyou sounds fantastic !

[sonicpsychiatry]

Wow. Brecker is such a mammoth player. It kind of sucks that the bass player gets cut-off in the beginning of what seemed like a potentially great solo.

[63Brummie]

The Bass player is Nil Henning - Pederson RIP...

Check him out on Oscar Peterson's records

[sonicpsychiatry]

Wow, thanks a lot, man! I'm now on the hunt for those Peterson records.

[tall32guy]

He had a beard in Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light concert in 1980, so sometime between then and 1983, he shaved. I kind of liked him better with the beard. :)

[AzureBlooNote]

I'd so pick up the Tenor Sax just to transcribe this beast of a solo!

[Coltranized]

Most amazing Oleo solo ever!

[Coltranized]

EVER!

[AzureBlooNote]

Know what's weird? Starting to like agree with yourself as if you were somehow detached as someone else on a different channel. . .

[29573428937]

I really want to know who that bass player is.

[AsaFlowerBlossomsIam]

That bass player is Neils-Henning Orsted Pedersen - very well known player from Denmark who, part of the whole north Europe thing, and often the bass player of choice for major US jazz stars touring in Europe when they didn't have their own band with them. He's on a couple of great records with Dexter Gordon from Dexter's years in Europe.

[aabyeone]

It is the danish bassplayer Niels Henning Ørsted pedersen who have plaued with Oscar Petersons trio

[Rugt980]

michael brecker was unique yet such an awesome technician hes no copycat act of trane, he should ranked among great saxophonists!

[f15r18]

Life is beautiful when I listen music like this man! Pure genius!

[jazzuffe]

NHØP just sits down and play the best <bass that Michael ever had behind him. 2 Giants!

[jazzuffe]

NHØP!!!

[Lottolearnstrings]

This NHOP plays some weird bass lines right from the beginning! gotta transcribe

[AmundLauritzen]

I wish I could figure out what he was doing when he was playing the kind of lines he does here. The man was a true inspiration!

[santaspetmonkey]

i only get 4 seconds of bass solo i need more

[redhouse7]

agreed!

[theelder987]

If i would know he has that damn cancer i would spend him everything he needed. i would give my heart away for this guy.

[KrummyBear]

Lul, I love the way he starts his solo a half step off tonic for the first chord. He's like, "these fuckers wont be able to handle this" xD And he's right. I almost pooped my self. He was one hip dood. RIP Brecker.

[KwameNewton]

Lol, my ears had an orgasm.