Showing posts with label Michael Brecker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Brecker. Show all posts

The Brecker Brothers discography [1975-2020] (FLAC)


 In the '70s, brothers Michael and Randy Brecker co-led a band of New York session big shots that included, at various times, David Sanborn, Don Grolnick, Will Lee, and George Duke, among others. When they chose to, the Brecker Brothers Band could be one of the most intelligent and creative fusion outfits. Chief composer/trumpeter Randy's best tunes were structurally unpredictable, melodically intricate, and harmonically complex, inside/out bop heads played in an impossibly precise manner over a bed of funk rhythms. Unlike the bulk of jazz-funk, the Breckers -- on their first record, at least -- kept the pandering to a minimum. Though it had a certain commercial appeal, 1975's Back to Back was an artistic success as well. The Brothers' music was a smart combination of extended pop forms, top-notch jazz improvisation, and sophisticated compositional techniques. On later albums, the temptation to sell records apparently became too great to resist. Still, virtually every record had something of substance to recommend it. In the early '90s, RCA issued a pair of compilation CDs that combined the best of the band's purely instrumental, jazz-based work. By 1982, the brothers had ceased working together, but they did reunite occasionally for touring and the recording of two albums for GRP: Return of the Brecker Brothers in 1992 and Out of the Loop in 1994. 

1975 - The Brecker Brothers (2016)
1976 - Back To Back (2016)
1977 - Don't Stop The Music (2016)
1978 - Heavy Metal Be-Bop (2017)
1980 - Detente (2017)
1981 - Straphangin' (2017)
1991 - Score (1991)
1992 - Return Of The Brecker Brothers (2017)
1994 - Out Of The Loop (2017)
2015 - The Bottom Line Archive (2015)
2020 - Live And Unreleased







Steps discography (1980-1982) [FLAC]

 

Steps Ahead is an American jazz fusion group.


The group arose out of spontaneous sessions at Seventh Avenue South, a jazz club in New York City owned by saxophonist Michael Brecker and trumpeter brother Randy Brecker. The first three albums were released under the name Steps, later changed to Steps Ahead, on Nippon Columbia in Japan, starting with the debut live album Smokin' in the Pit (1980), followed by Step By Step (1981) and Paradox (1982).