Michael Brecker Band - Upside Downside

Hamburg, Germany
October 19, 1987

Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone, EWI
Mike Stern - guitar, composer
Jeff Andrews - bass
Joey Caldarazzo - keys
Adam Nussbaum - drums

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Music

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• michael
• brecker
• upside
• downside
• mike
• stern
• jeff
• andrews
• joey
• caldarazzo
• adam
• nussbaum
• jazz
• fusion

[hsaxsf]

Anyone know how old Joey Calderazzo is in ths clip?  He looks like he may be barely 18 if that?

[fodera6]

@hsaxsf Joey was born in 1965 so he was 22 in this video.

[Guitarschmoozer]

Mike Stern is a VERY GOOD guitar player but he always sounds exactly the same when he solo's.

His solos build the same way each time.

He needs a bit more variation within his solo's in my opinion.

Great player though.

Miss ya MB. Alot.

[3shiftgtr]

jbowers-the reason Sco broke through is because he discarded the "jazz" laws that say you must play hollowbody thru a polytone amp and play sax lix in order for it to be jazz. Distortion will keep you out of MANY gigs. It's the jazz nazi's fault! They are sucking the attitude out! Holdsworth, Frisell, Stern, Sco, Metheny, Henderson, are a few of the cats out there who are moving jazz forward and are the whole bag; style, chops, attitude, tone, personal yet contextual jazz vocabulary, etc.

[pebblefrog196]

It's just music. Who gives a shit about complexity? usetheforce207 just made an observation comparing today's mainstream music (pop, rock, latin, hip-hop, "r&b) to jazz.

[CBurton]

@usetheforce207 Oh, and please check out Frank Zappa (has 87 albums, you'll have a lot to pick :D).

If you enjoy complexity as much as you love jazz, you'll soon find out that having a narrow mind towards music will stop you from discovering wonderful complex and diverse pieces. Oh and you were talkin about music sheets, well If you can read them, I can send you some of my old zappa sheets and a few jazz sheets (scanned ofc), then you can judge by yourself if jazz takes full advantage, or all do

[tbonetreat]

All idioms, styles, genres are HARD to play or compose well, on a pro level, authentically: MJ; Ellington; Hermeto Pascoal; Egberto Gismonti; El Grand Combo; Jeff Beck; Bartok; J.S.Bach; Chops, Harmonic vocubulary, Attitude are all HARD .....It's music!!! It's not scoopin ice cream , at the mall< that's easier

[tbonetreat]

I think that Stern is great . He's made his mark, as a guitarist and composer. His best albums were at the beginning. He's been repeating himself for years. Most of them have-Steve Morse, Stern, Metheny et al. It's hard to keep reinventing yourself, and reinventing music like Miles did.

[Guitfiddlejase]

@Guitarschmoozer Not arguing here...but I think Stern just has his "voice" you know?

Every player has there way of soloing...just puttung in my two cents...

[azornos09]

@McMinnManiac Quite so. I don't think I said that schooling means you can't do dirt, just that you can learn technique but some people never learn feel. WOW (see what i did there?) have both and therefore get a gold star.

[McMinnManiac]

Stern is really aggressive sounding , way more than anyone as schooled in mainstream jazz that i can think of . Awesome composer with those counter point lines he comes up with

[McMinnManiac]

@azornos09 You think so hunh. How do you explain Wendy O Williams band ! Those guys were schooled out the ass , and chose to play Punk/Metal for fun . They now do film scoring and music direction in college some where LOL