When you were listening to the clips, it blew your brains into jelly, so it's understandable you mixed them up. I'm surprised it's in as good an order as it is, after your face was melted off by these tasty solos.
the latest is always the greatest the tenor sax was made for him and him only Mike, your a great 👍 inspiration, when ever I am down your playing takes me to a place of solitude 😊 thanks Michael
Honestly, I love his playing, but one of my favorite things about brecker will always be just how much he looks like an accountant while doing all the crazy stuff he does
The dislikes are probably folks that feel playing fast doesn't equal good.. but I'm guessing playing fast is what Bernie considers beast mode. I've seen the same style videos on musicians like Oscar Peterson, where "beast mode" just means "fast".
I was lucky enough to see Michael Brecker 8 times. Live or not, you left out a bunch and to me these were not the Beast or the best of the man. The greatest Tenor Sax of all times,he had the best notes, a genius in how he used his God given abilities. What a loss, can you imagine what we could have been able to listen to had he lived another 30 years?, and his last album he gave everything to his his last breath. How lucky they are in Heaven to hear him play. A true gentleman with Grace.
He lived in the loft downstairs from my longtime drummer, Howie Wyeth on 19th st. We jammed and did gigs together. This monster genius was the sweetest cat I ever met.
Brecker is one of my heroes on tenor, but for #3 I couldn't help but imagine him (after his solo finished) asking me if I'd like to apply for a bank loan lol
I still find so much emotion in his craziest of lines. the sheer hard work he put into the craft is without question, but the emotion in his lines is what makes him special to me.
If he golfed -every drive 350 yards If he hooped- 100 pts a game ,all dunks If he was a track athelet- own all the records. Musically speaking the 8th wonder of the world.
What a loss..But how much did he leave to this world? In 10, 20 years it will still be ahead. For those looking for proof of the existence of extraterrestrials, here you will find it! But this applies to many other musicians who lit the spark by indicating the way that others followed. Unfortunately there are too many useless people to do without and they live a long time. What a mystery life is. Thank you Michael for your boundless talent!
The greatest musician ever to walk the earth! No one could ever match mastery of all the phases of his talent. When this eagle flew, is was effortless.
I am so grateful to have seen MB perform on more than 10 occasions. I am a flute player, that doubled on Tenor. He was my hero. The heir to Coltrane. When he passed away, I was devastated. After his passing I started listening to a lot of Bob Berg, also a well accomplished player. Then his life ends tragically on a winter night in a car crash. I am reluctant to like another tenor player........all the ones I admire pass away tragically. Thank you for posting this solos. They are inspiring.
What an absolute animal! Still sad that he passed away, because of that dreadful blood disease. Vinnie put out a message then, to donate blood, from a very specific type. If I had that type, I would have been giving it in a heartbeat. We miss you Mike. 😎😩
Barcelona Spain 92-Return of Brecker brothers, take your pick, Common Ground, for Barry, (Rogers) He shreds the living crap out of every solo and that band was ridiculous. Steps Ahead, the first three he kills the beast many many times over. Check it out. Anyone who has not listened to Steps Ahead's first three albums, you are missing out on one of the best bands M.B. was in. So freaking creative. The last ten years have been somewhat empty with M.B. so thank God for these RUclips recordings.
My youtube “teachers” always say to start improve with few notes “less is more or save best for last” but MB totally crushed that theory, he dives in with 120 note phrases, gets you excited from the first millisecond. Dang, what a video!
I was a rock guitarist in the early 80s and I started to get into jazz via Pat Metheny, but in about 1986, a friend played me a track from guitarist Kazumi Watanabe's album Mobo Splash...the song is Crisis 3, and that was the first time I heard Michael Brecker solo ---- it was like a spiritual experience the way he built tension and relieved it back and forth perfectly...if you get a chance to listen to that track, you will not be disappointed.
Oh yeah, seen brecker a couple times. It was always awesome. Thanks for putting these clips together. He was truly an amazing musician and a great great saxophone player
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing him with Paul Simon on the Graceland tour in London in 1987 , I think it was ....Still crazy after all of these years solo......wow wow wow !
Seek out Brecker as part of The Atlantic Family live at Montreux 1977 on an incendiary version of Pick Up The Pieces - a building-melting solo and groove. I was fortunate enough to play with Brecker when he was guest soloist at our college jazz festival in 1986, he played w our university jazz ensemble on the first half, and Steps Ahead on the 2nd half. That day he gave a clinic at our music school and a few of us rode up the elevator with him. What a soft-spoken nice guy he was...and how lucky for us in the jazz program. He is missed.
I will also notify the Intergalactic Commitee for The Protection of The Laws of Physics about solo no.1. My report will fall under the "Serious Cataclysmic Potential" category.
Nunca, jamás, ni en este mundo ni en otros, ni en ningún otro universo paralelo, ni en ninguna otra realidad o dimensión, habrá otro como él. His talent is inconceivable. Never, never, neither in this world nor in others, nor in any other parallel universe, nor in any other reality or dimension, will there be another like him. His talent is inconceivable.
There's nobody who I've ever heard who could or can touch the Brecker Realm. I love Chris Potter and he's insane but he stikl aint in the Brecker Realm
More like 7 times out of "always". His only "bad days" were when he got a bit too mechanical (for my personal taste), but that's still Brecker's bad day which is better than most players' good days.
He was ALWAYS on the beast mode ❗ That's why he was a living legend and he always will be a legend. RIP Michael, the jazz world will be not the same without you 🙁
What a fantastic collection! A few items-in no particular order-that went through my head while enjoying this video: 1. Boy, am I getting old! (I was around and fortunate enough to have seen Michael, in person, in ALL of the bands on this video...) 2. God I miss the Armani suits that were in style in the mid- to late-1990s... 3. Gee, it's too bad that he never really got to play with any GOOD musicians in his bands.... (RIIIIIGHT...) 4. Where the hell has Benny Green been lately? 5. #1 wasn't as good as that tour-Return of the Brecker Brothers-got, because I saw them on that tour... AT BERKLEE!!! (OMFG. It was a religious frenzy for all parties involved; the most energy I have EVER felt at any gig ever; all genres!) 6. And the winner for most frequent sideman GOES to... Mike Stern! 7. Thanks for putting this together!
I recall many times in High School watching Terri Geraci go beast mode. Like on Hank Hiorns a few times. Oh and that time he went beast mode on his Thunderbird!!
I didn't have the incredible luck to see Michael Brecker in concert, but I listened to his music for many years and I still do. For me one of the best "Beast Mode" performance I heard of him is his solo in "Harpoon" of the Brecker Brothers album " Out Of The Loop" (not in live though...). That part is sooo powerful. The tight work with the drummer (I think it's Rodney Holmes) is simply awesome.
Video #1 sure brings back memories. I first learned of Michael (and Randy) Brecker when I was in high school and the Brecker Brothers Straphangin' album was my first taste of their tunes. I still have this on vinyl.
That s%#t at 10:33 is the best sound if heard in my life ever... I'd learn saxophone just to play that thing all day, probably the best moment in Jazz History I ever heard, pure awsome... Some Skunk Funk is so good too, I don't think he went beast mode, beasts aren't that good, he went Brecker mode :P
I can't recall a time I heard him he wasn't burning up the stage. The entries to his solos say " Look out, you're about to be floored" Hamish Stuart in the Chaka clip is laughing in disbelief.
My daughter came with me once to see Michael when she was very young. She said to me that he looks and sounds like he is going to take off and explode like a rocket! :) I was very lucky to see him perform numerous times as well as get to talk and walk around with him at a music conference.
#7 is at least in the realm of us mere mortals if we wanted to try to learn it and give it a go! So beautiful and rich with color, phrasing and harmonic ideas.
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Haha I just realized I went #6, #5, #7. My bad! You get what I was going for, though. ;)
Numbers are subjective
You were so nervous cause' dat phrasing so it,'s ok, i would made the same mistake maybe while listening MB 😈😈😈😈😈
When you were listening to the clips, it blew your brains into jelly, so it's understandable you mixed them up. I'm surprised it's in as good an order as it is, after your face was melted off by these tasty solos.
simply the truth! Point!
the latest is always the greatest the tenor sax was made for him and him only Mike, your a great 👍 inspiration, when ever I am down your playing takes me to a place of solitude 😊 thanks Michael
The seven times Michael Brecker went beast mode: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
John Dolph Well articulated.
Luv it !
Greatest. Comment. Ever.
He only needed Saturday, two shows...
I was going to carry the same idea but you told it the best
Honestly, I love his playing, but one of my favorite things about brecker will always be just how much he looks like an accountant while doing all the crazy stuff he does
Haha!
the 24 dislikes are the reeds Michael broke in 1995
The dislikes are probably folks that feel playing fast doesn't equal good.. but I'm guessing playing fast is what Bernie considers beast mode. I've seen the same style videos on musicians like Oscar Peterson, where "beast mode" just means "fast".
The dislikes were looking for metal....
Sigh back when you could see those
What? There are not even 7 times Brecker *didn't* go beast mode.
That was his default setting.
Intenzity I was thinking the same thing
Lol!!! 100%
came here to say this
nothing more, nothing less than 100% always
word.
but beasts can’t go Michael Brecker mode
sad, but true
Best comment ever!
Joe Hernandez wow this is a nice surprise! I’d forgotten that comment 😂
@@nofretzDW still remember 2 years later?
@@Auditas I do now! Thanks 😂
tone, phrasing, dynamics, timing, articulation, power, vocabulary...He had the lot.
Brecker went into beast mode while brushing his teeth
Autodidactus Plays JRPGs i hope not, ;)
Autodidactus Plays JRPGs I need to brush my teeth right now
ha yes fosho
Like Bob Berg, Brecker played every solo like it was his last. Thankfully for us they did, since they left us WAY too soon.
I’m convinced Mr Brecker used “cheat codes”. 🤠🤠🤠
This comment, which keeps the gamer metaphor going beautifully, deserves more likes!
I was lucky enough to see Michael Brecker 8 times. Live or not, you left out a bunch and to me these were not the Beast or the best of the man. The greatest Tenor Sax of all times,he had the best notes, a genius in how he used his God given abilities. What a loss, can you imagine what we could have been able to listen to had he lived another 30 years?, and his last album he gave everything to his his last breath. How lucky they are in Heaven to hear him play. A true gentleman with Grace.
ALL opinions are subjective. This being said, I love and miss Michael Brecker the musician.
Sven Olavson
It irks me when people say "God given" about people who work their asses off.
@@Robjoe757 add Allan Holdsworth
Michael Brecker was the first jazz musician I ever heard live. It changed my life!
Not god given, guarantee he worked for it
He lived in the loft downstairs from my longtime drummer, Howie Wyeth on 19th st. We jammed and did gigs together. This monster genius was the sweetest cat I ever met.
No matter who you are there's always someone who can play the sax better than you.
The exception to that rule is Michael Brecker!
Leo p?
@@andys4971 nah
@@andys4971 not on tenor
@@andys4971 not close
@@andys4971 What's with little kids treating this guy like he's god
Holy cow. He never ceases to amaze after decades of listening to MB. He’s now immortal.
Brecker is one of my heroes on tenor, but for #3 I couldn't help but imagine him (after his solo finished) asking me if I'd like to apply for a bank loan lol
He'd be the most burning banker out there though.
I would ask for a jazz loan with him
The human torch was denied a bank loan. The human torch was denied a bank loan.
I still find so much emotion in his craziest of lines. the sheer hard work he put into the craft is without question, but the emotion in his lines is what makes him special to me.
The opening Skunk Funk solo is simply the best, especially the roaring multiphonic at 1:21 and the descending lick immediately after!
My saxophone after seeing this video:
Why you can't touch me like this man? 😪😪😪
Talk about taking the tenor saxophone to the limit. No one did, or ever will, like Michael Brecker.
3:04 When Randy accidentally bumps into Michael during his solo and Michael lets out a high-pitched "hooonk" from his sax. So well timed! 😂
So sad that Michael the legend left us. He’s up there trading 4’s with Bird, Miles, Trane, Dexter and the cats.
Bob Berg
I am reporting solo no.4 to the police. Pretty sure it's illegal.
If he golfed -every drive 350 yards
If he hooped- 100 pts a game ,all dunks
If he was a track athelet- own all the records.
Musically speaking the 8th wonder of the world.
he actually did ditch music for a period of time to play basketball haha
What a loss..But how much did he leave to this world? In 10, 20 years it will still be ahead. For those looking for proof of the existence of extraterrestrials, here you will find it! But this applies to many other musicians who lit the spark by indicating the way that others followed. Unfortunately there are too many useless people to do without and they live a long time. What a mystery life is. Thank you Michael for your boundless talent!
Adjusting your sunglasses while taking on a solo is a higher level of badass.(#4)
Woah these notes hit faster than my dad
TSOJTC?
Tiago Lageira hah
very sad for you???
Your dad is mike Tyson? 😆
LOL
The great Dennis Chambers on drums, too!!!
The greatest musician ever to walk the earth! No one could ever match mastery of all the phases of his talent. When this eagle flew, is was effortless.
Had to smoke a cigarette after watching this video. Speechless. Bravo. RiP Mike with tears and a smile. Ed
I am so grateful to have seen MB perform on more than 10 occasions. I am a flute player, that doubled on Tenor. He was my hero. The heir to Coltrane. When he passed away, I was devastated. After his passing I started listening to a lot of Bob Berg, also a well accomplished player. Then his life ends tragically on a winter night in a car crash. I am reluctant to like another tenor player........all the ones I admire pass away tragically.
Thank you for posting this solos. They are inspiring.
it's impossible to overstate mike's virtuosity, musical command, and digestion of musical styles. mind-bending...
In my opinion, the fastest technical Saxophone player. Ever.
What an absolute animal! Still sad that he passed away, because of that dreadful blood disease. Vinnie put out a message then, to donate blood, from a very specific type. If I had that type, I would have been giving it in a heartbeat. We miss you Mike. 😎😩
I love how in #3 Brecker is dressed like an attorney. He's like, "I object Your Honor. Allow me to badger the witness."
Coming soon from Bernie's Bootlegs: Michael Brecker - The Bar Mitzvah Tapes
Jazz Video Guy lol, the Brit Mila tapes
Played with this guy once, he was absolutely amazing
He always went beast mode
There is always this performance as well. Total beast mode. In a gold bathing suit. ruclips.net/video/yAJnpaFRrlw/видео.html
Michael Brecker was the definition of beast mode 24/7.
Barcelona Spain 92-Return of Brecker brothers, take your pick, Common Ground, for Barry, (Rogers) He shreds the living crap out of every solo and that band was ridiculous. Steps Ahead, the first three he kills the beast many many times over. Check it out. Anyone who has not listened to Steps Ahead's first three albums, you are missing out on one of the best bands M.B. was in. So freaking creative. The last ten years have been somewhat empty with M.B. so thank God for these RUclips recordings.
My personal favorite Michael Brecker solo is that in the tune "Gossip", in Mike Stern's album "Time in Place". It gives me goosbumps every time!
I was just thinking "wow there is a musical mode called 'Beast' and Brecker use it a lot "
I'd add the Dry Cleaner from Des Moines from Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light. What a solo!
Doug Robinson great choice!
I completely agree.
And Jaco's line underneath is absolutley insane, too.
I do agree. And on tio of that I heard a story that he had a really bad flu that day and performed with high fever...but it’s a beast solo anyway!
And what a LP...!!!!
For anyone wondering what notes he played for that pattern at 4:33-4:35, "C Bb Eb C Ab F" then take the same line and move it down half steps.
Ikechi Onyenaka thanks!
are you pitch perfect or something
don't talk shit you dumbass
What a loss! Saw Michael in Rome and he made it rain. High moment in a full and glorious life. Mine, I mean!
Michael Colonna Still Gone WAAY Too Soon
My youtube “teachers” always say to start improve with few notes “less is more or save best for last” but MB totally crushed that theory, he dives in with 120 note phrases, gets you excited from the first millisecond. Dang, what a video!
I was a rock guitarist in the early 80s and I started to get into jazz via Pat Metheny, but in about 1986, a friend played me a track from guitarist Kazumi Watanabe's album Mobo Splash...the song is Crisis 3, and that was the first time I heard Michael Brecker solo ---- it was like a spiritual experience the way he built tension and relieved it back and forth perfectly...if you get a chance to listen to that track, you will not be disappointed.
I was thinking about his solo on The Chicken from Jacob Pastorius' Birthday album, but there's no video of that. It was an epic solo however.
Michael Freaking Brecker!!!!!!!! Rest In Peace, such a master of the saxophone!!!! Definitely one of my top 3 favorite tenor players of all time!
Oh yeah, seen brecker a couple times. It was always awesome. Thanks for putting these clips together. He was truly an amazing musician and a great great saxophone player
My Mom:
A Michael Brecker solo can't scare you
Me:
0:05
Oh god no! 😨😰😰
Good LAWD! I'm exhausted just listening to this! Thank you for reminding us just what a BEAST Michael was!
i love the cheeky quote of istbynne reel from don’t try this at home in number 3
Dang, Michael!
dang
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing him with Paul Simon on the Graceland tour in London in 1987 , I think it was ....Still crazy after all of these years solo......wow wow wow !
Na minha humilde opinião melhor e mais completo saxofonista que já existiu até hoje !
The dislike button should be renamed ''I have no ability to appreciate genius''
My favourite tenor player of all time so ALL are great to me, great compilation, thanks.
Seek out Brecker as part of The Atlantic Family live at Montreux 1977 on an incendiary version of Pick Up The Pieces - a building-melting solo and groove. I was fortunate enough to play with Brecker when he was guest soloist at our college jazz festival in 1986, he played w our university jazz ensemble on the first half, and Steps Ahead on the 2nd half. That day he gave a clinic at our music school and a few of us rode up the elevator with him. What a soft-spoken nice guy he was...and how lucky for us in the jazz program. He is missed.
I will also notify the Intergalactic Commitee for The Protection of The Laws of Physics about solo no.1. My report will fall under the "Serious Cataclysmic Potential" category.
I can't even imagine what kind of madness whould he have played for us if he didnt die.
Love your channel!
Nunca, jamás, ni en este mundo ni en otros, ni en ningún otro universo paralelo, ni en ninguna otra realidad o dimensión, habrá otro como él. His talent is inconceivable.
Never, never, neither in this world nor in others, nor in any other parallel universe, nor in any other reality or dimension, will there be another like him. His talent is inconceivable.
14:29 the substitution is the greatest sound in music. It never fails to get a reaction out of you when you hear it negotiated marvelously.
Michael went beast mode everytime he picked up his horn.
I consider it a high point of my life that I saw this guy live. I'd pay serious money to see him play scales.
There's nobody who I've ever heard who could or can touch the Brecker Realm. I love Chris Potter and he's insane but he stikl aint in the Brecker Realm
Joe Henderson.
Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Leo p
Andy S you’re joking, right?
The title of this should be "those 7 times out of like 10,000"
More like 7 times out of "always". His only "bad days" were when he got a bit too mechanical (for my personal taste), but that's still Brecker's bad day which is better than most players' good days.
I had forgotten that gig with Chaka Khan - so long ago. Back when Randy was slim! The Comet's Tail indeed...
He was ALWAYS on the beast mode ❗
That's why he was a living legend and he always will be a legend.
RIP Michael,
the jazz world will be not the same without you 🙁
#3 - Such good time
Listen to "Starbust" from Spyro Gyra's Morning Dance Album. He plays the solo. Jay was in awe whe he saw him play that stuff.
Chuck Norris was said to only go into Brecker Mode once or twice
Thanks Bernie for the clips , being a saxophone player Michael remains the master, and inspiration
What a fantastic collection! A few items-in no particular order-that went through my head while enjoying this video:
1. Boy, am I getting old! (I was around and fortunate enough to have seen Michael, in person, in ALL of the bands on this video...)
2. God I miss the Armani suits that were in style in the mid- to late-1990s...
3. Gee, it's too bad that he never really got to play with any GOOD musicians in his bands.... (RIIIIIGHT...)
4. Where the hell has Benny Green been lately?
5. #1 wasn't as good as that tour-Return of the Brecker Brothers-got, because I saw them on that tour... AT BERKLEE!!! (OMFG. It was a religious frenzy for all parties involved; the most energy I have EVER felt at any gig ever; all genres!)
6. And the winner for most frequent sideman GOES to... Mike Stern!
7. Thanks for putting this together!
#6. Someone recently referred to Mike Stern as the guitarist from Blood Sweat and Tears. "What?" I thought...
There's another. I never knew.
When wasn't MB in beast mode? Good video!
I recall many times in High School watching Terri Geraci go beast mode. Like on Hank Hiorns a few times. Oh and that time he went beast mode on his Thunderbird!!
Terry Geraci hey dude!! Watching some of your vid’s, have you abandoned sax for keys? I wanna see your sax playing.
Terry Geraci if you haven’t figured it out this is Roger. Haha
1 am and with headphones at max, a lovely way to loose your ears but with groove folks!! Fucking groove!!
such a beast he literally bends linear time to make #6 appear before #5
That was awesome and he was the greatest in my humble opinion.
I didn't have the incredible luck to see Michael Brecker in concert, but I listened to his music for many years and I still do. For me one of the best "Beast Mode" performance I heard of him is his solo in "Harpoon" of the Brecker Brothers album " Out Of The Loop" (not in live though...). That part is sooo powerful. The tight work with the drummer (I think it's Rodney Holmes) is simply awesome.
Video #1 sure brings back memories. I first learned of Michael (and Randy) Brecker when I was in high school and the Brecker Brothers Straphangin' album was my first taste of their tunes. I still have this on vinyl.
Before he goes to sleep, Chuck Norris checks under his bed for Michael Brecker.
Absolutely love this! #1 is actually cued up on my VCR.
Ari Rosenthal the whole show? I'm jealous
That s%#t at 10:33 is the best sound if heard in my life ever... I'd learn saxophone just to play that thing all day, probably the best moment in Jazz History I ever heard, pure awsome... Some Skunk Funk is so good too, I don't think he went beast mode, beasts aren't that good, he went Brecker mode :P
This is probably the 50th time I came back to watch this video !!
Seriously? 'Chromazone' with mike stern is the best solo! Listen to it pls
Legend has it he gave mouth to mouth to Bobby Mcferrin and the rest is history.
This guy was always in Beast mode, a master!!
I can't recall a time I heard him he wasn't burning up the stage. The entries to his solos say " Look out, you're about to be floored" Hamish Stuart in the Chaka clip is laughing in disbelief.
No words folks....just filled with emotion.... so very blessed to have listened to you play! I pray to meet you in heaven someday!
Wa wa what, WOW!!!! Ive never heard of this guy, damn masterful.
My daughter came with me once to see Michael when she was very young. She said to me that he looks and sounds like he is going to take off and explode like a rocket! :) I was very lucky to see him perform numerous times as well as get to talk and walk around with him at a music conference.
Love it, thanks for sharing!
My favorite Brecker performance is on the exquisite Michael Franks tune ‘When She is Mine’ - simply masterful
#7 is at least in the realm of us mere mortals if we wanted to try to learn it and give it a go! So beautiful and rich with color, phrasing and harmonic ideas.
You should have put Song For Bilbao up here.
I feel Michael pretty much pissed off on #2
You forgot my favourite Solo on Pools with Steps Ahead😢😢😢
If jazz is a language, he were able to communicate with whole galaxy
I would have loved to see Original Rays on this list, but it’s still a good one. Brecker is the best saxophonist to ever or will ever walk the earth.
I liked number 2. Some of the lines he played reminded me of Charlie Parker.
Certainly makes you want to love beasts.
Wow, Michael. I sure do love and miss you.
Jon
No words... They are Breckers ! My favorites! Absolutely