Even if he was playing modally, the A section is basically a 2 bar vamp. How does that not lend itself to modal playing well? It's the same 3 chords. i ii-V..........
yeah agreed that this is a killer solo by a master ... and the changes are there! This is a literal lesson in modern jazz technique and the use of alternate scales.
Cord progression, shmord progression. I've listened to countless players playing the proper changes and it can be very boring. It takes a true master to go outside only to be right in the pocket so to speak. Michael was one such master...
@01537 Dude, you're so right! He could play in the 11 keys other than the one in the background and it always made sense somehow. There's nothing duller than a c dorian line on c minor 7 chord. Playing a standard strictly inside is like having to hear Sweet Home Alabama AGAIN!
@01537 The chord changes are important. It's important to know the chord changes in order to play outside like him, so you can land it correctly. If you don't land it correctly, you just played a bunch of wrong notes.
@musicmanson As a sax player I fully understand the importance of playing the proper changes. I think you may have misunderstood what I was implying here. Playing the "proper" changes can be very boring for the player as well as the listener. Most of the masters like MB played the changes in the most creative way. Anyone can learn their scales and chords and regurgitate them so they fit in the right place. But, unless they apply some creativity to them who cares to listen? Am I making sense?
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too bad he's not truly playing the correct changes to this tune. He's playing a killer solo on the form of Softly....but just using his tried and true modal approach, which while phenominal, doesnt do justice to the intended chord progression.
@saxman66 It's jazz, you're allowed to change the harmony. There are not that many changes on the tune anyway and to my ears, he plays in and out on them all the time beautifully. And what is the intended chord progression? The one written in 1928 or the ones evolved over the years by Rollins etc....
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Q: how many sax players does it take to change a light bulb?
A: fuck the changes!
aaronmichaelsax 4 months ago
How come that the great guys leave this planet too early while the assholes and wannabes stay on it too long?
janecroft 4 months ago
This is taken from the 2003 "concert For Ray Brown" at Jazz Baltica. does anyone know what mic is being used on Brecker in this vid?
vpsaxman 4 months ago
@vpsaxman well, it looks a lot like a CAD e100S apparently but it wasn't released in 2007... Anyone?
vpsaxman 4 months ago
@vpsaxman it is an original 80's CAD E100. :)
vpsaxman 4 months ago in playlist Liked
So out... Yet so in...
ianhendersonjazz 6 months ago
Never heard Michael Brecker play this tune... thanks for uploading.
ratiocinativeness 7 months ago
The bass player isn't walking he's sitting... haha see what i did there? that was lame...
SaXDuDe17 9 months ago
Is this DVD available in the US?
effsixteenblock50 11 months ago
@effsixteenblock50 may be yeah!!!
MrSaxomen 11 months ago
I dare someone to play better than Michael Brecker - it can't be done!
queekers 1 year ago
@queekers i would but im too scared
seerskater 9 months ago
Even if he was playing modally, the A section is basically a 2 bar vamp. How does that not lend itself to modal playing well? It's the same 3 chords. i ii-V..........
tekunetsu 1 year ago
yeah agreed that this is a killer solo by a master ... and the changes are there! This is a literal lesson in modern jazz technique and the use of alternate scales.
Arborwaychet 1 year ago
Michael is such a bad dude.
zacharylipton 1 year ago
Michael, thanks for so many great years of the very best music!
melvinquinones 1 year ago
Cord progression, shmord progression. I've listened to countless players playing the proper changes and it can be very boring. It takes a true master to go outside only to be right in the pocket so to speak. Michael was one such master...
01537 2 years ago 10
@01537 Dude, you're so right! He could play in the 11 keys other than the one in the background and it always made sense somehow. There's nothing duller than a c dorian line on c minor 7 chord. Playing a standard strictly inside is like having to hear Sweet Home Alabama AGAIN!
Modes9 6 months ago
@01537 The chord changes are important. It's important to know the chord changes in order to play outside like him, so you can land it correctly. If you don't land it correctly, you just played a bunch of wrong notes.
musicmanson 2 months ago
@musicmanson As a sax player I fully understand the importance of playing the proper changes. I think you may have misunderstood what I was implying here. Playing the "proper" changes can be very boring for the player as well as the listener. Most of the masters like MB played the changes in the most creative way. Anyone can learn their scales and chords and regurgitate them so they fit in the right place. But, unless they apply some creativity to them who cares to listen? Am I making sense?
01537 2 months ago
@01537 I get what you are saying. It was just the way it came off in writing. But that's just how I took it.
musicmanson 2 months ago
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too bad he's not truly playing the correct changes to this tune. He's playing a killer solo on the form of Softly....but just using his tried and true modal approach, which while phenominal, doesnt do justice to the intended chord progression.
saxman66 2 years ago
@saxman66 It's jazz, you're allowed to change the harmony. There are not that many changes on the tune anyway and to my ears, he plays in and out on them all the time beautifully. And what is the intended chord progression? The one written in 1928 or the ones evolved over the years by Rollins etc....
londonchops67 1 year ago
@saxman66 mate you're ears obviously aren't good enough to make a comment like that if you can't hear the changes in his playing.
loosecow 1 year ago
@saxman66 You obviously haven't understood what jazz is about. Hurry up, you won't live forever.
janecroft 4 months ago
Still in denial that he's gone.
This is just sick.
When I see this stuff, I'm thankful for YouTube.
robopitz 2 years ago 2
That's the thing.
He's not.
He'll always be among us for as long as his music thrives.
yahbitchyah777 2 years ago
hahahha that`s It.
Thanks MB
leviandades777 2 years ago
the rhythm section is Benny Green on piano, Chris McBride on bass and Alvin Queen on drums...
Mike will be always the number 1...
filippinijazz 2 years ago
@filippinijazz don't forget ulf wakenius on guitar. they barely show him, but he's there.
griffinsemple 1 year ago
Wow!!!! That was sooooooo nasty!!!!! That rythm section swings so hard and Michael just destroys that solo! I cant wait until I can play like that.
geraldcody 2 years ago 4
@geraldcody its not gonna happen
dontevenstartme 1 year ago
damn!!! that was something!!!
mrgone78 2 years ago