1987 · Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker
Library — Saxophone
Michael Brecker
6 albums as leader and 35 as sideman (1975–2016), each listed chronologically.
As Leader · 6
As Sideman · 35
Paint It Blue (A Tribute To Cannonball Adderley)
Nils Landgren Funk Unit
1996 · ACT (4)
SidemanTenor Saxophone
Directions in Music
Herbie Hancock
2002 · Verve
SidemanSaxophone / Liner Notes / Tenor Saxophone / Producer
Notes on these albums · 6
1996 · Tales from the Hudson and 1 more
On Pat Metheny's ECM date 80/81 (1980), two tenors stood side by side: Michael Brecker, by then a fusion and pop studio staple, and Dewey Redman, straight out of the free-jazz lineage. Pairing the studio ace with the avant-garde tenor was the whole point of the record.
— Statement stmt-jack-dejohnette-on-michael-brecker
2007 · Pilgrimage
Pat Metheny first heard Michael Brecker's tenor not on a jazz record but on a pop hit pouring out of a car radio at a big intersection. The two would later become close collaborators — but the introduction came over the airwaves, through pop.
— Statement stmt-pat-metheny-on-michael-brecker
1976 · Jaco Pastorius and 1 more
Pilgrimage (2007) was the last album Brecker recorded, in the year he died, with Herbie Hancock on piano. Of a record made at the edge of death, Hancock said: 'That record is alive—one hundred percent, more than alive, Michael Brecker.' The final document was the most alive.
— Statement stmt-herbie-hancock-on-michael-brecker
Herbie Hancock1980 · 80/81
80/81
1981 · Word of Mouth
In 1976, a still largely unknown Jaco Pastorius played bass on Joni Mitchell's folk album Hejira — the same year he released his own debut and joined Weather Report. His avant-garde fretless playing found its way onto one of the era's defining singer-songwriter records.
— Statement stmt-michael-brecker-on-joni-mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Jaco Pastorius
Don Alias