1977:
The Brecker Brothers release the timely (for this thread) titled "Don't Stop The Music". Michael Brecker plays another of his impossibly virtuosic funk solos:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=geV8ExTfORc
Pat Metheny's second solo record "Watercolors" is very impressionistic in overall vibe. New Age with musical substance and meaning?:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qIfGZCDpUw
Just as Metheny's music and beautifully delicate guitar sound was a harbinger of the soon to come, insipid and dreadful (how do I really feel?) New Age Music wave (but without the substance), Dave Sanborn's sound would change the way that countless young saxophone players would play the alto saxophone in the new (and mostly dreadful) Smooth Jazz wave; but, without the grease and soulfulness that Sanborn brings to the table:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ci3cQo986k
Steve Grossman, another Miles alum, releases "Terra Firma"; very intense post-Coltrane tenor playing in some of the most aggressive jazz-rock fusion of the period. Acman3, this has your name on it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHmRfE0P9Q
Poland is not the first place one thinks of as a place for interesting fusion. Urszula Dudziak is a very interesting and virtuosic singer who often worked with electric violinist Michal Urbaniak. An acquired taste; but very interesting:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0a_yc2aUU
So where did all the grease and soulfulness in that unique tone that Sanborn has come from? Before he was the megastar that he would become this is where he paid his dues. A victim of polio, he lost one of his lungs and his doctor told him that he should pick up a wind instrument to strengthen the remaining lung:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B4GNci5koi8
The Brecker Brothers release the timely (for this thread) titled "Don't Stop The Music". Michael Brecker plays another of his impossibly virtuosic funk solos:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=geV8ExTfORc
Pat Metheny's second solo record "Watercolors" is very impressionistic in overall vibe. New Age with musical substance and meaning?:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qIfGZCDpUw
Just as Metheny's music and beautifully delicate guitar sound was a harbinger of the soon to come, insipid and dreadful (how do I really feel?) New Age Music wave (but without the substance), Dave Sanborn's sound would change the way that countless young saxophone players would play the alto saxophone in the new (and mostly dreadful) Smooth Jazz wave; but, without the grease and soulfulness that Sanborn brings to the table:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ci3cQo986k
Steve Grossman, another Miles alum, releases "Terra Firma"; very intense post-Coltrane tenor playing in some of the most aggressive jazz-rock fusion of the period. Acman3, this has your name on it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHmRfE0P9Q
Poland is not the first place one thinks of as a place for interesting fusion. Urszula Dudziak is a very interesting and virtuosic singer who often worked with electric violinist Michal Urbaniak. An acquired taste; but very interesting:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0a_yc2aUU
So where did all the grease and soulfulness in that unique tone that Sanborn has come from? Before he was the megastar that he would become this is where he paid his dues. A victim of polio, he lost one of his lungs and his doctor told him that he should pick up a wind instrument to strengthen the remaining lung:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B4GNci5koi8