★★★★★
The renowned DePaul University Jazz Ensemble continues a tradition begun more than twenty years ago by performing and recording at the oldest historic jazz club in Chicago, the Jazz Showcase located in the historic 'Printer's Row' district of the Dearborn Station area. The Dearborn Station live recording also maintains another on-going tradition and that is documenting sensational sessions of big band music with an icon of jazz this time, with the phenomenal trumpeter Randy Brecker Randy...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2015-02-04
★★★★★
Dearborn Station, the tenth album recorded by the superb DePaul University Jazz Ensemble at Joe Segal's legendary Jazz Showcase (in Chicago's historic Dearborn Station, hence the title), is another bright and rhythmic tour de force for director / trumpeter Bob Lark Bob Lark b.1958 trumpet 's intrepid undergrads and their special guest, trumpeter Randy Brecker Randy Brecker b.1945 trumpet , whose perceptive solos enhance the first half-dozen of the album's nine tracks...
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2015-01-06
★★★★★
Since Michael, one half of the Brecker brothers, died in 2007, there was a risk this might turn out to be a case of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. But there are so many great players from the original band here - David Sanborn, Mike Stern, Dave Weckl, not to mention trumpeter Randy himself - that you soon surrender to the sheer blinding efficiency of it all. Saxophonist Ada Rovatti, standing in for Michael, rises wonderfully to the occasion...
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2014-01-05
★★★★★
From 1975 to 1981, the Brecker Brothers ruled jazz-funk with their splicings of virtuosic hard-bop and dancefloor grooves. Following saxophonist Mike Brecker's death in 2007, trumpeter Randy left their repertoire alone, until producer Steve Backer persuaded him to turn a band of old Brecker hands into a reunion outfit, represented here as a studio CD and a live DVD from New York's Blue Note...
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2014-01-03
★★★★★
The backstory is that Randy Brecker was putting together a band for an engagement at the Blue Note when he realized that all of the musicians he was recruiting were alumni of different iterations of the Brecker Brothers, the renowned fusion band he and his saxophonist brother Michael ran in the '70s. Randy decided to turn the gig into a tribute to Michael, who died in 2007, with Randy's wife Ada Rovatti (the sole non-BBB alumnus) taking on the sax role. This live DVD and studio CD resulted...
- jazztimes.com
2013-12-31
★★★★★
Track Listing: CD (Studio): First Tune Of The Set; Stellina; The Dipshit; Merry Go Town; The Slag; Really In For It; Elegy For Mike; On The Rise; Adina; R N Bee; Musician's Ol' Lady Dues Blues. DVD (Live): First Tune Of The Set; The Slag; Adina; Really In For It; Straphangin'; Stellina; Merry Go Town; Inside Out; Some Skunk Funk...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-10-25
★★★★★
The waters of history significantly bathe Kalisz, Poland's oldest city. Specifically, they source back when Kalisz was an important stop on the Amber Road to Rome. Historical streams of another type also run broadly through this exuberantly satisfying recording offered by the triumvirate of trumpeter, Randy Brecker
Randy Brecker
b.1945 trumpet
, pianist/composer Wlodek Pawlik, and the hometown Kalisz Philharmonic...
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2013-09-29
★★★★★
Ever since his early years with the Brecker Brothers and Blood, Sweat & Tears, Randy Brecker has pioneered the fusion of jazz and rock. He has a contemporary sound that's broad and powerful enough to unite many, if not all, of us under one umbrella. Randy Brecker Some Skunk Funk Telarc 2006 Recorded live at a 2003 concert performance in Germany with the WDR Big Band, this brotherly funk session (Michael's here too) rocks out with spirits soaring and horns aglow...
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2010-08-24
★★★★★
In the spirit of Miles Davis, Randy Brecker is no stranger to experimenting with new genres of music. In his newest release "Hangin' In The City," Brecker helps to bring hip-hop and rap into the contemporary jazz genre with 11 numbers that help to show the new image of the street. Brecker gets great help from such back up players as Hiram Bullock, Will Lee and, of course, his brother Michael to bring out a mosaic of the African American experience as it is today...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
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