Jazz Articles about Randy Brecker

Horace Silver: The United States of Mind

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 21, 2006

L’identità peculiare del jazz degli anni Cinquanta, la freschezza di temi e riff, la capacità di intrecciare innovazione e recupero del linguaggio primario afroamericano: Horace Silver ha sempre interpretato queste tematiche con naturale autorevolezza. La sua inventiva non si offuscava nemmeno negli anni difficili, quando la musica popolare si specchiava nell’irruenza del rock e il mestiere del jazzman perdeva - almeno negli Usa - gran parte del suo prestigio. Lo dimostra questa edizione molto utile della Blue Note, che in ...

Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk & Soulbop Band Live

by Ivana Ng
September 4, 2006

Randy Brecker with Michael Brecker Some Skunk Funk Telarc Records 2006 Bill Evans and Randy Brecker Soulbop Band Live BHM Productions 2005

Randy Brecker's latest recordings are only mainstream because they are generously laced with R&B soul and multifaceted Latin funk. In all other aspects, Brecker, who performs with his younger ...

Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk

by John Kelman
July 20, 2006

The 2003 performance documented on Some Skunk Funk may be credited to trumpeter Randy Brecker, but his brother, saxophonist Michael, joins in for a Brecker Brothers reunion with the added oomph of Germany's WDR Big Band. And if ever a band's repertoire was custom-made to be retrofitted with a larger horn section, it's that of the Brecker Brothers. Some of the material comes from Randy Brecker's solo career: “Shanghigh" and “Let It Go" from 34th N Lex (ESC, 2003), “Wayne ...

Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk

by Woodrow Wilkins
July 7, 2006

The Brecker Brothers burst onto the fusion scene in the 1970s. After many years of working separately, Randy and Mike Brecker reunited in the early 1990s. The brothers' affiliations--together or separately--have included Billy Cobham, David Sanborn, Steely Dan, Spyro Gyra, Carly Simon, Jaco Pastorius' Word of Mouth Big Band, Bruce Springsteen and Janis Joplin. Collectively, the Brecker brothers have won three Grammy awards--two for Randy's Into the Sun (Concord, 1997) and 34th n Lex (ESC, 2003), and one for the ...

Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk & Soul Bop Band-Live

by Jim Santella
June 7, 2006

Ever since his early years with the Brecker Brothers and Blood, Sweat & Tears, Randy Brecker has pioneered the fusion of jazz and rock. He has a contemporary sound that's broad and powerful enough to unite many, if not all, of us under one umbrella. Randy BreckerSome Skunk FunkTelarc2006Recorded live at a 2003 concert performance in Germany with the WDR Big Band, this brotherly funk session (Michael's here too) rocks ...

Tom Scott with Special Guest Phil Woods: Bebop United

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 11, 2006

The unblemished record of Pittsburgh's Mancheaster Craftsmen's Guild as a venue for recording jazz albums continues with the this new recording from Tom Scott with special guest Phil Woods. Scott has amassed a lengthy discography which has reflected high energy fusion, pop-soul and smooth jazz over the past two decades. His earlier years, however, found him playing strongly as a member of the Don Ellis and Oliver Nelson Big Bands.

In 1992, Scott returned to the mainstream with Born Again, ...

Tom Scott: Bebop United

by Jim Santella
February 25, 2006

For Bebop United Tom Scott convened a a group of veterans for a straight-ahead live auditorium performance in Pittsburgh. His cohesive ensemble interprets each selection with a comfortable groove and a lot of soul. Featuring Phil Woods on three numbers, the concert brings slow ballads and up-tempo romps to its audience convincingly. Trumpeter Randy Brecker and tenor saxophonist Scott provide much of the dialogue, each bringing a warm presence to the concert.

For “His Eyes, Her Eyes, soloists ...