randy brecker The Brecker brothers toured with Billy Cobham in 1975. Randy Brecker played the
trumpet in Frank Zappa's band at the 'Palladium' concerts in New York
City from December 26 > 29, 1976. May
1, 2012, the Randy Brecker Band performed "Pop" at the Blue
Note club in New York City. The "Pop" program included songs
by Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, and others. All
the songs were re-arranged by Kenny Werner.
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from: "adebisi" (doona@hotmail.com)
when did the brecker brothers play with frank zappa?
from: charles
ulrich (ulrich@sfu.ca)
december 26-29, 1976, at the palladium, in new york. but not at the felt forum
shows in october, nor on saturday night live.
from: scott yanow, all music guide
randy brecker is essentially a fine hard bop trumpet soloist but one versatile enough to fit into nearly any setting including in the pop world, funk bands and electronic fusion. he studied classical trumpet and attended indiana university. brecker was with blood, sweat & tears in 1967 and spent 1968-69 playing with horace silver's quintet. he also appeared with the big bands of clark terry, duke pearson, frank foster and the thad jones/mel lewis orchestra. after playing with the early fusion group dreams in 1969, he worked with larry coryell's eleventh house and billy cobham in addition to keeping very busy with studiowork. he teamed up with michael brecker in the popular funk-oriented brecker brothers (1974-79), in the 1980s often collaborated with his wife, pianist/vocalist eliane elias, and in the '90s toured with the reunited brecker brothers. but randy brecker still sounds best when in a freewheeling bebop combo and fortunately he occasionally records in that type of spontaneous setting.
from:
biffyshrew (biffyshrew@aol.com)
possibly worth mentioning that randy brecker was in the original lineup of blood
sweat & tears.
from:
aj wilkes (u6n71@keele.ac.uk)
ronnie
cuber and randy brecker play on a charles mingus album released in 97
- que viva mingus, latin type jazz thang.
links:
http://www.jazzcorner.com/brecker/
discography:
(under construction! please excuse the mess.)
1968 blood, sweat & tears- child is father to the man
1974 cobham, billy- crosswinds
1974 aerosmith- get your wings
1975 brecker brothers
1975 brecker brothers- the brecker brothers collection, vol. 1
1975 brecker brothers- the brecker brothers collection, vol. 2
1976 brecker brothers- back to back
1976 john, elton- blue moves
1977 collins, bootsy- ahh...the name is bootsy, baby!
1977 wesley, fred- blow for me, a toot to you
1978 brecker brothers- blue montreux: 1978 montreux jazz festival
1978 brecker brothers- heavy metal be-bop
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frank
zappa: zappa in new york
(1978, 2lp, usa, discreet) |
1980 brecker brothers- don't stop the music
1980 brecker brothers- straphangin'
1980 brecker brothers- detente
1984 m+m- mystery walk
1990 paul simon- rhythm of the saints (trumpet, piccolo trumpet)
1991 acoustic alchemy- back on the case
1991 aerosmith- pandora's box
1992 brecker brothers- return of the brecker brothers
1992 music land & grp: got what's hot in
59 | frank zappa: you can't do that on
stage anymore vol.6 (1992, 2cd, usa, ryko) |
1993 world of contemporary jazz groups
1993 fagen, donald- kamakiriad (trumpet, flugelhorn)
1994 brecker brothers- out of the loop
1995 jazz to the world- jazz to the world
1996 mingusbigband- live in time
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frank zappa: läther
(1996, 3cd, usa, ryko) |
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frank zappa: have i offended someone? (1997, cd, usa, ryko) |
1997 crack the sky- crack attic (the best of crack the sky)
1997 charles mingus- que viva mingus
1998 martha and the muffins / m+m- then again: a retrospective
1998 aerosmith- aerosmith/get your wings/toys in the attic
1999 various artists- 70's jazz pioneers
2000 jason miles / various artists- celebrating the music of weather report
sebastiaan cornelissen: on impulse
(2011, cd, usa, abstract logix) - feat. randy brecker
billy sherwood:
the fusion syndicate (2012, cd, usa, purple pyramid records) - feat. chad wackerman, chester thompson |
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panzerballett: tank goodness (2012, cd, ger, gentle art of music) - feat. randy brecker, mattias ia eklundh |
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beledo: montevideo jazz dreams (2015, download, --, moonjune records) - feat. randy brecker |
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randy brecker:
randypop (2015, cd, ??, ??) |
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