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Michael Brecker: Don't Try This at Home

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Artist: ichael Brecker
Title: Don't Try This at Home
Released: 1988
Label: MCA Records
Time: 55:31
Producer(s): Don Grolnick
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Category: Jazz
Rating: ****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.11.13
Price in €: 18,17
Web address: www.michaelbrecker.com

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[[1] Itsbynne Reel (Brecker/Grolnick) - 7:41
[2] Chime This (Grolnick) - 7:50
[3] Scriabin (Mendoza) - 4:59
[4] Suspone (Stern) - 4:59
[5] Don't Try This at Home (Brecker/Grolnick) - 9:30
[6] Everything Happens When You're Gone (Brecker) - 7:11
[7] Talking to Myself (Grolnick) - 5:10

Bonus track available only on CD:
[8] The Gentleman & Hizcaine (Beard) - 5:19

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MICHAEL BRECKER - Keyboards, Tenor Saxophone, Akai EWI

JIM BEARD - Synthesizer, Piano
JOEY CALDERAZZO - Piano
JACK DEJOHNETTE - Drums
PETER ERSKINE - Drums
DON GROLNICK - Piano
HERBIE HANCOCK - Piano
MIKE STERN - Guitar
JEFF ANDREWS - Electric Bass
CHARLIE HADEN - Acoustic Bass
JUDD MILLER - Synthesizer
ADAM NUSSBAUM - Drums
MARK O'CONNOR - Violin
TOMMY GILL - Piano Technician

RICKY SCHULTZ - Executive Producer
JAMES FARBER - Engineer, Mixing
KAREN ROBBEN - Assistant Engineer
GARY SOLOMON - Assistant Engineer
GREG CALBI - Mastering
RHONDA SCHOEN - Digital Editing
KATHLEEN COVERT - Art Direction, Design
MARK SELIGER - Photography
KAREN KRAMER - Production Coordination
JERRY WORTMAN - Production Assistant
GEORGE VARGA - Liner Notes

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1988 CD Impulse! MCAD-42229
1988 CS MCA MCAC-42229

This 1988 album, "Don't Try This At Home", earned Brecker his first (from 8) Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance.



1987's DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME is Michael Brecker's second album as a leader following nearly two decades as an in-demand session musician (Paul Simon, Steely Dan, etc.) and one-half of the Brecker Brothers with his trumpeter brother Randy. It's basically a continuation and refinement of ideas first explored on 1986's MICHAEL BRECKER. Brecker plays more tenor sax on this album, and his experiments with MIDI synthesizers are better integrated into the whole of the largely acoustic arrangements. Rather than the stable group that backed him on his debut, the cast of DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME reads like a Who's Who of post-bop fusion: Herbie Hancock (playing acoustic piano, not synth), acoustic bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Jack DeJohnette all make impressive showings in Brecker's largely self-composed and usually quite memorable tunes.

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Michael Brecker's second album as a leader is almost the equal of his first. Surprisingly, only one song ("Suspone") uses his working quintet of the period (which consists of guitarist Mike Stern, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Jeff Andrews and drummer Adam Nussbaum) although those musicians also pop up on other selections with the likes of pianists Don Grolnick and Herbie Hancock, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Jack DeJohnette and violinist Mark O'Connor. Brecker (on tenor and the EWI) is in superb form, really ripping into the eight pieces (mostly group originals). Recommended.

Scott Yanow - All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Jetzt beherrscht Michael Brecker den "EWI" genannten Synthesizer für Blä- ser so vollkommen wie das Tenorsaxophon. Doch nur beim Saxophon wird fühl- bar, wie sensibel Brecker die schwingende Luftsäule kontrolliert. Ein per- fektes Jazzalbum mit exzellenten Sidemen, darunter den Pianisten Herbie Hancock.

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Adel verpflichtet. Die Talentschmiede impulse! zählt aufgrund ihrer Ver- dienste in der Vergangenheit zweifellos zum Platten-Adel, und wenn Michael Brecker für dieses Label aufnimmt, verpflichtet er nicht nur die Hautevolee des modernen Jazz-Adels - Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette oder Herbie Hancock - zur Mitarbeit, sondern adelt sich auch noch selbst - mit lupenreinem, modern schwingendem Jazz. Die Musiker sind so gut drauf, daß sie im Titelstück regelrecht abheben - nur die Zimmerdecke bereitet diesem Höhenflug auf der Heimanlage ein jähes Ende. ** Interpret.: 7-10

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1987's DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME is Michael Brecker's second album as a leader following nearly two decades as an in-demand session musician (Paul Simon, Steely Dan, etc.) and one-half of the Brecker Brothers with his trumpeter brother Randy. It's basically a continuation and refinement of ideas first explored on 1986's MICHAEL BRECKER.

Brecker plays more tenor sax on this album, and his experiments with MIDI synthesizers are better integrated into the whole of the largely acoustic arrangements. Rather than the stable group that backed him on his debut, the cast of DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME reads like a Who's Who of post-bop fusion: Herbie Hancock (playing acoustic piano, not synth), acoustic bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Jack DeJohnette all make impressive showings in Brecker's largely self-composed and usually quite memorable tunes.

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