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
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.
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.
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.
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. 😎😩
Great comp. Shame they don't come like Mike anymore. I can just imagine if Mike was alive today, how much fantastic playing he would have given us with the new electronic wind instruments. Again, Bernie Bootlegs, Thanks for sharing, and stay safe.
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!
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.
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.
#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.
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 fingers don't cooperate after an upper back injury in 2004. I'm relearning how to move the fills in & out to the beat. The upper back injury it took one great chiropractor to help me. Opiates as ordered by your primary care "heir" doctor persuaded by drug reps are not as effective as ibuprofen. Don't know if my fingers will work as quick as lightning again, but I've got confidence. Love playing the changes and the melodies with advanced chords. Goal: My ability again to play piano solos again with the best. As to trombone again: my goal is to move that slide like I did before Spring of 2004.
America's All Time Jazz Dream Team would have been: Art Blakey - Drummer Oscar Peterson - Piano Jaco Pastorius - Bass Miles Davis - Trumpet Michael Brecker - Sax
So many great sax players from Butera Coltrane Desmond the number one and always be number one Is Michael if there is such a thing as a saxophone magician Michael Brecker can pull notes of of a hat -----as a musician and sax man for many years he is the ultimate player. if Michael has a band up there I hope some day to get tickets.
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.
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 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.
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
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 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
tone, phrasing, dynamics, timing, articulation, power, vocabulary...He had the lot.
Holy cow. He never ceases to amaze after decades of listening to MB. He’s now immortal.
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.
The opening Skunk Funk solo is simply the best, especially the roaring multiphonic at 1:21 and the descending lick immediately after!
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.
he actually did ditch music for a period of time to play basketball haha
Like Bob Berg, Brecker played every solo like it was his last. Thankfully for us they did, since they left us WAY too soon.
My saxophone after seeing this video:
Why you can't touch me like this man? 😪😪😪
it's impossible to overstate mike's virtuosity, musical command, and digestion of musical styles. mind-bending...
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
Played with this guy once, he was absolutely amazing
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.
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! 😂
Michael Brecker was the definition of beast mode 24/7.
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!
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. 😎😩
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.
Great comp. Shame they don't come like Mike anymore. I can just imagine if Mike was alive today, how much fantastic playing he would have given us with the new electronic wind instruments. Again, Bernie Bootlegs, Thanks for sharing, and stay safe.
True. But, there is Jerry Bergonzi, Chis Potter and a few other Tenor Colossus Geniuses.
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!
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.
Thanks Bernie for the clips , being a saxophone player Michael remains the master, and inspiration
Na minha humilde opinião melhor e mais completo saxofonista que já existiu até hoje !
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.
My Mom:
A Michael Brecker solo can't scare you
Me:
0:05
Oh god no! 😨😰😰
Great selections!!
Love it, thanks for sharing!
My favorite Brecker performance is on the exquisite Michael Franks tune ‘When She is Mine’ - simply masterful
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.
If jazz is a language, he were able to communicate with whole galaxy
This is probably the 50th time I came back to watch this video !!
Puro genio. Grazie!!!!!!!!!!
Michael Brecker never entered or left beast mode. He simply is.
Ho avuto la fortuna di ascoltare questo marziano dal vivo a Roma .Musica che ti fa venire la pelle d'oca.
1 am and with headphones at max, a lovely way to loose your ears but with groove folks!! Fucking groove!!
Before he goes to sleep, Chuck Norris checks under his bed for Michael Brecker.
Awesome!
Im glad I found Mike Brecker from Rick Beato.....marvelous sax player!❤
the only 14 min top 7 on yt, for the real listenner
The best
The king
saw this guy back in the 80s with Mike Stern. Breck was blowin a bad ass horn back then.-as you can attest. RIP thanks Mr B!
Certainly makes you want to love beasts.
Wow, Michael. I sure do love and miss you.
Jon
The best!!! There are many greats he’s my favorite and I will mention Eric Marienthal who was the next Michael Brecker in line
Alex Han is up there, wish he'd play the tenor more.
By the time he's finished, there's nothing left to play!!
I feel Michael pretty much pissed off on #2
#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.
Favorite Brecker solo - with E.S.T. and Metheny and Landgren: ruclips.net/video/sya8Bb76-4Q/видео.html
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.
GOAT
Il mio numero uno in assoluto.Immortale
Sometimes it's the quality of note selection instead of quantity like the 2 solos he took on Candy by Cameo
Mucho Caliente!! Hombre!!
Chaka can be a visual handful there on #2. Made Randy Brecker clap on the "one"
This video started at 1.25x speed and I didn't notice for a minute...I was like WTF is this
NUCLEAR
He literally outplays the instrument. It’s like the saxophone isn’t even capable of what he’s able to put into it.
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.
This man wss a genius
Damn why does everybody die.... I miss my eighties
Mom: Michael Brecker Beast doesn't exit he can't hurt you
Me: Sees this video... 😨😨😨😳
Le Larry Bird du saxophone , un Monstre RIP , Legende de France
Saw MB live….I wish could play even close to his level-next life maybe ?
The joy of sax!
The Bruce Lee of saxophone! RIP.
My fingers don't cooperate after an upper back injury in 2004. I'm relearning how to move the fills in & out to the beat. The upper back injury it took one great chiropractor to help me. Opiates as ordered by your primary care "heir" doctor persuaded by drug reps are not as effective as ibuprofen. Don't know if my fingers will work as quick as lightning again, but I've got confidence. Love playing the changes and the melodies with advanced chords. Goal: My ability again to play piano solos again with the best. As to trombone again: my goal is to move that slide like I did before Spring of 2004.
#7👌🏻😃
Yeowww!
Michael Brecker could kill a man with just his solos
Was that first clip bootlegged from The Egg in Albany, NY?
Its definitely the lineup I saw there, and even the backgrounds look familiar!
A night in insanity.
Those 7 times when he didn't went beast mode...
OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
America's All Time Jazz Dream Team would have been:
Art Blakey - Drummer
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Jaco Pastorius - Bass
Miles Davis - Trumpet
Michael Brecker - Sax
I wish I could play 50% as good as MB
Michael Brecker IS the beast mode.
This is his default mode:))
People say he's overrated. Nonsense. Caught him with Elvin Jones years ago and he brought it in every way.
It's almost like he has super powers.
Try to imagine him plYing with Coltrane, boy what a blast it would have been, if only.
I miss him!
So many great sax players from Butera Coltrane Desmond the number one and always be number one Is Michael if there is such a thing as a saxophone magician Michael Brecker can pull notes of of a hat -----as a musician and sax man for many years he is the ultimate player.
if Michael has a band up there I hope some day to get tickets.
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 😂
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
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
Woah these notes hit faster than my dad
TSOJTC?
Tiago Lageira hah
very sad for you???
Your dad is mike Tyson? 😆
LOL
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
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.
Coming soon from Bernie's Bootlegs: Michael Brecker - The Bar Mitzvah Tapes
Jazz Video Guy lol, the Brit Mila tapes
Adjusting your sunglasses while taking on a solo is a higher level of badass.(#4)
Talk about taking the tenor saxophone to the limit. No one did, or ever will, like Michael Brecker.
The great Dennis Chambers on drums, too!!!
I love how in #3 Brecker is dressed like an attorney. He's like, "I object Your Honor. Allow me to badger the witness."
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.