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Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk & Soulbop Band Live

Read "Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk & Soulbop Band Live" reviewed by Ivana Ng


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 ...

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Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk

Read "Some Skunk Funk" reviewed by John Kelman


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 ...

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Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk

Read "Some Skunk Funk" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


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 ...

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

Read "Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk & Soul Bop Band-Live" reviewed by Jim Santella


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 FunkTelarc

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Some Skunk Funk - Live At Leverkusener Jazztage

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2005

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A New Kind of Blue

Label: A Nest Of Eggs
Released: 2004
Track listing: So What; Freddie Freeloader; Alone Together/Blue in Green; All Blues; Peace Piece/Flamenco Sketches; All Blues (alternate version).

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G.Org: A New Kind of Blue

Read "A New Kind of Blue" reviewed by John Kelman


Paying homage can be risky business, especially when the source is as seminal as Miles Davis' classic Kind of Blue. Comparisons are not just begged, they're expected. And how can anyone hope to capture the same magic? Or the confluence of events that put Davis, Julian “Cannonball" Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers ...

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34th N Lex

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. 34th N Lex (R. Brecker) 2. Streeange (R. Brecker) 3. Shanghigh (R. Brecker) 4. All 4 Love (G. Haase, J Phoenix & R. Brecker) 5. Let It Go (R. Brecker) 6. Foregone Conclusion (R. Brecker) 7. Hula Dula (R. Brecker) 8. The Fisherman (R. Brecker) 9. Give It Up (R. Brecker) 10. Tokyo Freddie (R. Brecker) 11. The Castle Rocks (R. Brecker)

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The Lay of the Land

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: The First Order of Business; Essence; At Home Again; The Lay of the Land; Cherokee; Climate; The Avid Listener; The Way You Look Tonight; The Star Spangled Banner.

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Catching Up With Randy Brecker

Read "Catching Up With Randy Brecker" reviewed by Mike Brannon


'Every work of art is a child of its age' - Vassily Kandinsky With modern legacies of the likes of Miles, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan (the latter two also from Philly), Freddie Hubbard and Blue Mitchell to contend with, and it being a decidedly lead instrument, anyone picking up a trumpet in 60's Philly ...


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