That’s the truth!! I had to play after him in. “ Lazyday” by Bob Mintzer. He was a special guest with the William Paterson Big Band that year. I was the guitarist in the Big Band. It was amazing but terrifying.
@@NATJANOFF22 I only saw him live and he seemed to be a grounded, friendly guy. After a solo he even made some gestures that he didn´t deserve the applause cause he thought that his solo was lousy. But it must have been a great experience for you, I guess.
@@anonymusum He was a great guy. It’s funny he seemed like a very unassuming guy. But when played he was like a tornado. His TIME especially was so great among other things. It’s good to be in uncomfortable situations so you can get a sense on how to handle them. If you get to scared you can’t be your best. And unfortunately that’s what people will judge you on.I also would say I didn’t master that situation. I did the best I could at the time.
Once I listened to that Brecker CD with Kenny Kirkland, Ron Carter and Jeff Tain Watts. When I went to sleep I tried to copy his playing style in my dream, but my saxophone got taken away from me and some old man told me that it was unacceptable and took me to a room where I had to listen to a bass line through a wall.
Hello 👋Kristina, how are you doing? Hope you are fine. I'm Keating woodman and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
@@ifabukolaoluwapese that's nice, I have been to Germany so many years ago and it's very nice there, I will love to visit again. Have you ever need to the state before?
I once heard him with the acoustic Brecker Bros. band. They played an unknown tune with about 100 harmonies in succession. I mean I´m a prof. musician but after numerous harmonies I simply couldn´t follow anymore. Then Michael played his solo over two choruses and finished it exactly at the end. And exactly then his brother took over. I was mesmerized.
I'm sure I've commented before, but this is one of (and I have many) my very favorite Brecker solos. I love how out he's playing, with so deliberate percision... and coming back in just to keep you barely hanging on. So much rhythmic and melodic variance. And his sound! Oh his sound! I have so many favorite sax players, but if FORCED to pick only one... Michael, you take cake!
I took my wife to see Michael at the original Yoshi's on Claremont Ave in Oakland. Neither of us could listen to music for about a week afterwards. We were still processing the magnitude of what we had just witnessed.
I heard MB there also. There were a bunch of tenor players in the audience, and he plays Delta City Blues. All of us tenor players were shocked at how totally handled that!
I saw him there with McCoy (and another time with Brecker Bros). The intimacy of that room was incredible. As a tenor player, sitting about four feet from Mike’s bell was a life-changing experience
@@newmanana Saw him in the UK with Mike Stern at the Brecon Jazz festival in the mid 80s, and was similarly close. Overwhelming sensory overload. Mindblowing. Audience was full of sax players hanging on his every note.
theyd be playing so fast theyd turn into helicopters and smash into the walls and the world would explode and then theyd play some modular pentatonic thing thta would be even more epic than that
R.I.P. Michael, thank you for your music, we are losing too many incredible musicians, and nobody does anything for the old dudes around still, that did not make it big, whatever that means for Jazz, unfortunately, here, in NY, the "jazz capital of the world"
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Full Of Fantastic Beasts! Brecker, Wakenius, McBride, Green, and Queen... I wish I was a fly in the corner of that stage in 2003 at Jazz Baltica
I met the Brecker Brothers when we were all about 23, at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway. Every show was sold out when I got there (1974, no internet). The Breckers had a break during a rehearsal with Billy Cobham. They came out and saw me sitting on a bench, invited me in to watch the rest of the rehearsal. Very nice people. An unbeatable combination -- Tremendous talent and good hearts.
I love the way McBride uses ostinato to build tension at 1:49 before Brecker starts throwing grandiose lyrical lines with held high notes, making you feel like the band is climaxing but also the way he uses it to introduce the feeling of release at the end of the guitar solo.
What a great player had the pleasure of seeing Mike Brecker up close at the palace in Hollywood and the return of the Brecker bros.at the strand Mike Brecker what a humble man!
Wow is the only word that comes to mind with this Michael Brecker performance. Then mix in a cohesive rhythm section whose members are all unbelievable soloists as well, then WOW! 💙🎵🎶
Eternal grace under fire ! This is pure power from pure soul. This is what we all aspire to but can only hear when the avatars sing. This is the most incredible morning wake up call of all time. Every artist at his most brilliant. Thank you brothers of the deep.
Benny Green is awesome! Christian McBride is a genius! And Brecker... is above greateness. Well I hope he, together with Kenny Kirkland et al. can still listen to this : there must be yuotube in Heaven. And our love is with you.
Hey listener: plug in speakers or headphones !!!!!! so you can enjoy the bass. it's not only 1/3 of the music but it adds to the brilliance of the sax and drums
McBride quoting the 'Scrapple From The Apple' lick @ 10:12-13 and again @ 10:17, more or less using the same basic motif and again @ 10:59. Bop All Day!. Quasi 'Straight No Chaser' figure @ 11:27.
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This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes by Pat Metheny:
There’s no more treacherous position in jazz than the guy who solos after Michael Brecker
That’s the truth!! I had to play after him in. “ Lazyday” by Bob Mintzer. He was a special guest with the William Paterson Big Band that year. I was the guitarist in the Big Band. It was amazing but terrifying.
@@NATJANOFF22 I bet ..... and how did you master that situation?
@@anonymusum I imagined playing with him when I would rehearse the tune. And work on my state. Keeping myself as calm as I could.
@@NATJANOFF22 I only saw him live and he seemed to be a grounded, friendly guy. After a solo he even made some gestures that he didn´t deserve the applause cause he thought that his solo was lousy.
But it must have been a great experience for you, I guess.
@@anonymusum He was a great guy. It’s funny he seemed like a very unassuming guy. But when played he was like a tornado. His TIME especially was so great among other things. It’s good to be in uncomfortable situations so you can get a sense on how to handle them. If you get to scared you can’t be your best. And unfortunately that’s what people will judge you on.I also would say I didn’t master that situation. I did the best I could at the time.
Once I listened to that Brecker CD with Kenny Kirkland, Ron Carter and Jeff Tain Watts. When I went to sleep I tried to copy his playing style in my dream, but my saxophone got taken away from me and some old man told me that it was unacceptable and took me to a room where I had to listen to a bass line through a wall.
Hello 👋Kristina, how are you doing? Hope you are fine. I'm Keating woodman and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
@@KeatingWoodman404 I'm fine how are you? I was born in Kazakchstan and I grew up in Germany in the city, but I love nature very much anyways!
@@ifabukolaoluwapese that's nice, I have been to Germany so many years ago and it's very nice there, I will love to visit again. Have you ever need to the state before?
Tain Watts house
That's very funny !!!
Brecker was so incredibly connected to the harmony he could play outside and you’d feel like it was in.
yes, don't hear anyone mention that much--if I could be playing again, I would work on that aspect of ear.
@Silvio Spampinato agreed!
Sonny Rollins is the master of that.
@@anthonybeecher2883 agreed!
I once heard him with the acoustic Brecker Bros. band. They played an unknown tune with about 100 harmonies in succession. I mean I´m a prof. musician but after numerous harmonies I simply couldn´t follow anymore. Then Michael played his solo over two choruses and finished it exactly at the end. And exactly then his brother took over. I was mesmerized.
Everyone's First Chorus : play soft and use the theme, let space
Brecker's first chorus : stop chorus cool lick, 4 bars space, PLAY HEAVY OUT.
Absolute chad
Literally. Boss move
The sunrise that engulfed the entire plant in flames.
Do you think Mike was subtly warning us about climate change? 😏
I'm sure I've commented before, but this is one of (and I have many) my very favorite Brecker solos. I love how out he's playing, with so deliberate percision... and coming back in just to keep you barely hanging on. So much rhythmic and melodic variance. And his sound! Oh his sound! I have so many favorite sax players, but if FORCED to pick only one... Michael, you take cake!
He is the MAN
He's not playing he is saying
That Benny Green solo was INSANE.
There are no words for michael Brecker. He is in the list of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Stan Getz Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane. I miss him...
He was in a class by himself. Total command of the instrument and endless creativity. Ulf's solo was also killer.
After being an all out blues guy for the past 20 years I finally had my first jazz-gasm today.
Please never call it that ever again
Was it from a Blow- job ?
@@saxiroth6647nah keep using it 😂
@@saxiroth6647let the man be happy
great jazz guitar...
I took my wife to see Michael at the original Yoshi's on Claremont Ave in Oakland. Neither of us could listen to music for about a week afterwards. We were still processing the magnitude of what we had just witnessed.
I miss Yoshi's saw many good shows there
I heard MB there also. There were a bunch of tenor players in the audience, and he plays Delta City Blues. All of us tenor players were shocked at how totally handled that!
I saw him there with McCoy (and another time with Brecker Bros). The intimacy of that room was incredible. As a tenor player, sitting about four feet from Mike’s bell was a life-changing experience
Wow. That sounds wild!
@@newmanana Saw him in the UK with Mike Stern at the Brecon Jazz festival in the mid 80s, and was similarly close. Overwhelming sensory overload. Mindblowing. Audience was full of sax players hanging on his every note.
Awesome guitar solo.
This version and Trane's version are probably the best i've ever heard in my life!!!
I think you will also like John Scofield's version from his early (1977?) Live album: th-cam.com/video/CUbK6lZdaWY/w-d-xo.html.
if this is softly as in a morning sunrise, i would like to see how they do it was a wildy stormy night hahaha..
theyd be playing so fast theyd turn into helicopters and smash into the walls and the world would explode and then theyd play some modular pentatonic thing thta would be even more epic than that
brilliant!!
It's always the naysayers that can't do what others can do and misinterpret the high jump for the leap frog...hahaha
+Eddie Hill bingo
This is more like "it's morning time bitch, get yo ass up or u gonna be late for work again"
Incredible solo ...Ulf...great playing all.
That's one hell of a performance from 5 absolutely complete musicians...Brecker playing at a superhuman level to make this astounding...
Michael Brecker - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise .. great video and song..R.I.P. Michael.
Yepp
Michael ,and Randy Brecker awesome players helped Jazz on go.
Michael Brecker had a complete mastery of the saxophone. Pure magic.
R.I.P. Michael, thank you for your music, we are losing too many incredible musicians, and nobody does anything for the old dudes around still, that did not make it big, whatever that means for Jazz, unfortunately, here, in NY, the "jazz capital of the world"
Yorgo Valirakis I here you. Saturated with fat like American Idol. Lack of public TV jazz programs to feature jazz masters etc
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Full Of Fantastic Beasts!
Brecker, Wakenius, McBride, Green, and Queen... I wish I was a fly in the corner of that stage in 2003 at Jazz Baltica
I met the Brecker Brothers when we were all about 23, at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway. Every show was sold out when I got there (1974, no internet). The Breckers had a break during a rehearsal with Billy Cobham. They came out and saw me sitting on a bench, invited me in to watch the rest of the rehearsal. Very nice people. An unbeatable combination -- Tremendous talent and good hearts.
I Love the feel of this.One of the best Bass solos ever recorded,in my opinion.G.
I agree. His notes, tone and phrases are just great! I wish I could play the upright at all! lol.
A brilliant bumpy, stormy ride! Awsome jazz (luckily I fastened my seatbelts).
WHAT A KILLIN RHYTHM SECTION! WHAT KILLIN SOLOISTS! WHAT A KILLIN BAND!
So much work, so much accuracy, so much stuff.
So much MUSIC
I love the way McBride uses ostinato to build tension at 1:49 before Brecker starts throwing grandiose lyrical lines with held high notes, making you feel like the band is climaxing but also the way he uses it to introduce the feeling of release at the end of the guitar solo.
Michael Brecker is a crazy jazzy saxophone player
Michael Brecker was so extremely on outside line start from first solo but still lirycal and he exactly did his own way
What a Lineup this was!!!!! SOB!!!! Incredible!!!
My favorite sax of All Times !!!
RIP You We're too good!!!
What a great player had the pleasure of seeing Mike Brecker up close at the palace in Hollywood and the return of the Brecker bros.at the strand Mike Brecker what a humble man!
That's the hottest, most hectic soft sunrise I ever heard.
my God does it get any better than this ??? Amazing .....
it doesn't
Wow is the only word that comes to mind with this Michael Brecker performance. Then mix in a cohesive rhythm section whose members are all unbelievable soloists as well, then WOW! 💙🎵🎶
Drummer is the best!
Bravo, Alvin Queen!!!
Christian McBride has got one of the best sound out there!
Benny Green's solo was out of this world!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Probably the greatest of. All time!!!
Three of my favorites together! I don't believe I will ever be the same again after this experience! Not just a little bit of heaven...
Christian McBride solo so melodic and ingeneous. Wish I could play my acoustic bass guitar like that.
Eternal grace under fire ! This is pure power from pure soul. This is what we all aspire to but can only hear when the avatars sing. This is the most incredible morning wake up call of all time. Every artist at his most brilliant. Thank you brothers of the deep.
RIP Michael. Such a beautiful player.
Ugh, Brecker just understood how to make, what he wanted to, work. So sick!
Benny Green is awesome! Christian McBride is a genius! And Brecker... is above greateness. Well I hope he, together with Kenny Kirkland et al. can still listen to this : there must be yuotube in Heaven. And our love is with you.
Some awesome piano from Benny Green...Michael Brecker set a standard as did Coltrane!...An awesome band!!!!!
Benny Green Berkeley, CA
@@andil101 Gosh Linda..I can't believe it's been 6 years since I wrote my comment and last watched this clip! 🙂
I remember this guy was playing the on Dan Fogelberg's song Lonely In Love!!!
Alvin Queen totally connected with the music that is emerging!
Hey listener:
plug in speakers or headphones !!!!!!
so you can enjoy the bass. it's not only 1/3 of the music but it adds to the brilliance of the sax and drums
Damn! That was some blowing.
i had this song in jazz band. we didnt sound this good bu it was still fun
Un tema con muy buenas improvisaciones de todos los músicos.FANTÁSTICO !!
Michael was always smokin' and I miss him. RIP
That bass solo is nuts!
MY Ears hear it... but my brain..... is processing......still processing. thank God its been taped.
When I am inspired and humbled
Simultaneously.
Great group .... and great live performance production. ....
I have a theory... this particular rhythm section is playing so tight and swinging that its what inspired Mr Brecker to play way out this night.
Thanks for all this greatness!
Color full. Very nice and lively!
nice that Mcbride is playing, brecker has no words to be described as a person, just a monster!
What a rythm section!!
I think of them as a wrecking crew... BEASTS I tell ya!
Monumental! Thank you for posting!
So insanely good...my word...
So good I’ll learn softly as in a morning sunrise off this recording
Amazing, I’m in awe. The SAX solo and guitar especially wow
Wonderful!!!
I fucking love this thing... Specially that the overall feels like softly as a kick in the ass
Holly fucking shit this is fantastic
what a band!
9:42 so beautiful
Here's Carlos playing the panpipes
Great artist ❤👍R.I.P Michael 🙏🎵🎶🎼
That guitarist is HILARIOUS when he talks about Hot Pockets in his comedy specials!
Faake Naymington He kinda does look like Jim Gaffigan
ROFL! Ulf Wakenius > Jim Gaffigan :P
McBride quoting the 'Scrapple From The Apple' lick @ 10:12-13 and again @ 10:17, more or less using the same basic motif and again @ 10:59. Bop All Day!. Quasi 'Straight No Chaser' figure @ 11:27.
J&C (Trombone & Panpipes)
Incredible performance by all. Wow.
Mike incredible as always, followed by great Ulf
simply incredibile...
That piano player Benny... WOW!!!!!!
so much respect ... and LIVE :)))))) out of your friction ^^
Heerlijke muziek.
Its hitest jazz misic level than I ever see !
yeah really good guitar solo and piano playing during it.
I love this song, very nice version of it!
unbe-bloody-lievable!
Michael Brecker is sorely missed in today's climate of sound-alike non-artists. Rest in Peace.
Insane 🔥
Numero uno!!
Wow!
Mmm... crazy melange of sounds.
Gotta transpose this!!
Brecker magic
7:42 WOW he connected the theme so well here!!!!
World Class.
You take the DNA of John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and Sonny Rollins-you got Brecker.
Great Michael...
super class!!!!!
Michael Brecker and Christian McBride's solo were the best
Geeeeeeeeeez!
So good!
omg so good
j'adore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUPER!