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When We were young: Michael Brecker Band with Jeff Andrews and Mike Stern

Discussion in 'Recordings [BG]' started by Dr. Cheese, Jun 7, 2019.

  1. Jun 7, 2019 #1
    Dr. Cheese

    Dr. Cheese Gold Supporting Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Metro St. Louis


    This was 1987. These guys were a bit older than me, but definitively young guys back in 1987. Of course Jeff Andrews and Michael Brecker are no longer with us. This made me think about those young whipper snappers, Vulfpeck, and how they are where the Brecker Brothers were forty years ago.
     
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  2. Jun 7, 2019 #2
    jerry

    jerry Too old for a hiptrip Gold Supporting Member

    Dec 13, 1999
    I'm going to disagree Cheese, I like Vulfpeck but they are not in the same category with Michael Brecker. They would probably even tell you that.
     
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  3. Jun 7, 2019 #3
    Dr. Cheese

    Dr. Cheese Gold Supporting Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Metro St. Louis
    You are right. The young music school vibe with chops is the similarity. I think Michael Brecker represented a transition where a transcendent talent was incubated at Indiana University, instead of apprenticing in on the band’s of established musicians.
     
  4. Jun 7, 2019 #4
    zombywoof5050

    zombywoof5050

    Dec 20, 2001
    I saw them on that tour in Houston (Rockefeller's), sitting right up front/center.
     
  5. Jun 7, 2019 #5
    JimK

    JimK

    Dec 12, 1999
    ...the degree of improvisation with Mike Brecker, Jeff Andrews, & Mike Stern would be several levels above. IMO.
    Caveat: I have not heard a ton of Vulfpeck. I do enjoy what I'm hearing...
     
  6. Jun 9, 2019 #6
    Bob_Ross

    Bob_Ross Gold Supporting Member

    Dec 29, 2012
    The original studio track of "Upside Downside" is a hair slower, and winds up feeling slinkier and sexier, but no less stankalicious. Featured Bob Berg on sax (I think?) and Mark Egan on bass. Very cool tune in either rendition.

    [edit: now that I think about it, Adam Nussbaum wasn't the drummer on that studio track either. Hmm... Dave Weckl maybe?]
     
  7. Jun 9, 2019 #7
    Dr. Cheese

    Dr. Cheese Gold Supporting Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Metro St. Louis
    Every time I see Mike Stern, I feel like one of the Ramones got mixed up, and showed up at the wrong gig until he starts playing.
     
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