Air was an American jazz rock band mainly active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The band's self-titled debut album was released in 1971 by Embryo Records, which had been founded by Herbie Mann in 1969.[1] The four core band members were Tom Coppola (Hammond organ, Allen organ, piano), John Siegler (bass), Mark Rosengarden (drums), and Googie Coppola (piano, vocals). The album also featured Randy Brecker on trumpet, Michael Brecker on saxophone, Barry Rogers on trombone, David Earle Johnson on congas and timbales, Robert Kogel on guitar, Bob Rosengarden on vibes, plus Jan Hammer and Herbie Mann on percussion. Herbie Mann was also the producer. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F0MKIfr2hc

#air1971 #embryorecords #herbiemann #randybrecker #michealbrecker #jazzrock

Jazztodon artist of the week: Randy Brecker!

“I’ve enjoyed being a so-called ‘sessions' player, or as we were known then as 'studio cat.' All the music was related and as long as it was professionally done and everyone was a professional musician – knew how to play in-tune, knew how to play with good time and the right kind of feeling – then the particular type of style of the music wasn’t as much a concern for me. I’d heard it all as being connected – just different styles of American music.

But, I also wanted to make a living. Some guys didn’t want to play all that stuff. I remember asking the great trombonist Slide Hampton, and I was playing with him a lot, and I asked him, ‘Slide, I’m doing a lot of studio work on the side, and I’m back in town, do you want me to help you to get into that?’ And he just didn’t want to do that.

So, it comes down to a personal choice, but I also enjoyed that kind of work. It wasn’t just making a living at it.”

#jazz #randybrecker

Peter Erskine Review by Scott Yanow

Drummer Peter Erskine's debut as a leader (originally made for Contemporary and reissued on CD in the OJC series) finds him using top players (most of whom had played with Steps Ahead) in various combinations. Erskine performs a few of his own originals (including an 11-minute "All's Well That Ends" and a short drum solo) plus "My Ship," Wayne Shorter's "E.S.P.," and Bob Mintzer's "Change of Mind." With such musicians as trumpeter Randy Brecker, tenors Michael Brecker and Mintzer, pianist Kenny Kirkland, and vibraphonist Mike Mainieri getting some solo space, this post-bop music (from an often-overlooked set) is of consistent high quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1hLiHQRtps&list=PLb3zcXvWuSqwrP-bCgVVdn76pEL4mm5xQ&index=1

#petererskine #debutLP #jazz #postbop #randybrecker #michaelbrecker #mikemainieri

Horace Silver Quintet // #HoraceSilverQuintet //

Song For My Father
(live at Newport Jazz Festival, De Doelen, Rotterdam, 1968)

//via // #BlueNote //

#brandunbrand #music #youtube #HoraceSilverQuintet #SongForMyFather

album version Song For My Father (1965):
#HoraceSilver
#CarmellJones
#JoeHenderson
#TeddySmith
#RogerHumphries

live version (1968):
#HoraceSilver
#RandyBrecker (trumpet)
#BennieMaupin (saxophone)
#JohnWilliams (bass)
#BillCobham (drums)

link youtube: https://youtu.be/XOr7D3g8RkI

#DemandezLeProgramme :
1970 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Kaikan Hall - Kyoto

#ArtBlakey (dr), #RandyBrecker (tp), Carlos Garnett (ts), #JoanneBrackeen (p), Jan Arnette (b), Etta Jones (voc)

#jazz

Aktuell in der #HörBar der #nmz: Koppel: Story Of Mankind – A Requiem — … Die Brüche in den Gestaltungsmitteln zwischen Song und Klangstudie sowie Jazzpassage tragen zur Irritation und Verschiebung des Gewöhnlichen bei. Aber reicht das aus, wo es doch auch um das Bodenlose – den Krieg und die Geschichte der Menschheit – geht? …

https://hoerbar.nmz.de/2024/06/koppel-story-of-mankind-a-requiem/

#Jazz #BenjaminKoppel #CowbellMusic #FrederikkeVedel #jazz #RandyBrecker

#DemandezLeProgramme :
1993 - David Sanborn, The Brecker Brothers, The Yellowjackets, Mike Mainieri Steps Ahead - NorthSea Jazz Festival
#jazz #DavidSanborn #MichaelBrecker #RandyBrecker #Yellowjackets

#DemandezLeProgramme #jazz #funk :
1992 - Brecker Brothers - Congresgebouw - The Hague / Den Haag / La Haye - Netherlands / Pays-Bas - NorthSea Jazz Festival

#RandyBrecker (tp), #MichaelBrecker (ts, EWI), Mike Stern (g), James Genus (b), George Witty (kbd), Dave Weckl (dr)

@jazz

Billy Cobham – drums, percussion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cobham

John Abercrombie – guitar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abercrombie_(guitarist)

Michael Brecker – woodwinds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker

Randy Brecker – trumpet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Brecker

Garnett Brown – trombone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnett_Brown

George Duke – keyboards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Duke

Lee Pastora – latin percussion

John Williams – acoustic & electric bass

"Crosswinds"
(Atlantic 1974)
https://songwhip.com/billy-cobham/crosswinds

#nowlistening #jazz #music #JazzMusic #JazzFusion
#BillyCobham
#JohnAbercrombie
#MichaelBrecker
#RandyBrecker
#GarnettBrown
#GeorgeDuke
#LeePastora
#JohnWilliams

#RandyBrecker shows up in all the best places.

"The remaining track, “Meeting Across The River,” is among the shortest things Springsteen has written (at 3:16), but it is also among the most striking. It's a quiet, slow number pitting Springsteen’s best vocals ever
against the bop wanderings of trumpeter Randy Brecker. Between this and a great melody, the track should become a Springsteen classic."

Also, can I go back to September 1975 and see Grover Washington Jr and Bobbi Humphrey live!