Michael Brecker - Oleo - 1983

'Jazz at the Gateway' Edinburgh
This solo is transcribed at www.michaelbreckerliverecordings.com

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Music

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• Oleo
• Michael
• Brecker
• saxophone
• jazz
• brecker
• improvisation

[MSmithjazz]

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

[ridingroy]

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

[stephanus75]

Comparing Kenny G to Brecker is certainly funny - and it is not a matter of taste. It's a completely different (mainstream) style and a different audience Kenny G serves. I'm sure his playing is great at a variety of occasions, starting with your first rendezvous, going on with Disney pictures and perhaps ending up with selling fabric softeners at safeways. Breckers music certainly wouldn't do the trick. It never is background music - it is art.

[whatsyourstory1]

@ranjithshegde IT WAS A F******G JOKE

[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....

[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.