By C.J Shearn, Jazz Views with CJ Shearn At the dawn of the 80’s Randy and Michael Brecker had been one of the hottest commodities on the music scene. They initially made a splash in 1970 as part of the horn section on Dreams (Columbia) the self titled debut album from the studio driven band … Read More
By Ed Enright, Downbeat The funk runs thick on this two-CD recording from a July 1980 performance in Hamburg, Germany, marking an especially exciting addition to The Brecker Brothers’ discography. Read this full review here.
By Ross Boissoneau, Something Else The Brecker Brothers appeared on hundreds if not thousands of recordings, by the likes of James Taylor, Todd Rundgren (“Hello It’s Me”), Aerosmith (“Same Old Song and Dance”), Everything But the Girl, Bruce Springsteen, Art Blakey, Jaco Pastorius – even Blood, Sweat and Tears, of which Randy Brecker was a … Read More
By Hectór Martin, Canción a Quemarropa Ya tenemos en nuestras manos el nuevo lanzamiento de Brecker Brothers, una de las combinaciones más salvajes entre los músicos de jazz fusión más importantes de varias década del estilo (70, 80 y 90). Bajo el título de Live and Unreleased, los hermanos Brecker grabaron este disco el 2 … Read More
By George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly The famed Brecker Brothers of trumpeter Randy and tenor saxist Michael fame are caught at a July 1980 gig in Hamburg, Germany, on the heels of there then-recent release Détente. Read the full review here.
By Travis Rodgers, The Jazz Owl If you were listening to Jazz in the 70s and 80s, you heard the Brecker Brothers in all their power, finesse, and glory. I remember well when they disbanded in 1982 and their last album, Straphangin’—their sixth—would occupy a place near and dear to me. They would reunite for … Read More
By Kevin Johnson, No Treble Forty years after it took place, a classic Brecker Brothers gig is now available on a new album called Live and Unreleased. The recording catches the iconic fusion band, fronted by trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxophonist Michael Brecker, at the Hamburg music club Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall during their Great … Read More
By Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine Unreleased albums from iconic names are usually a treat and fusion lovers will bask in this high energy 2CD set from the Brecker Brothers at a live show in Germany in 1980. Trumpeter Randy Brecker is still thriving, delivering projects consistently, having won six Grammys, the latest as recently as … Read More
By Colin Stanhope, PostGenre The Brecker Brothers, throughout their twenty-year career, always embodied an interesting duality in their music. On the one hand, every member was accomplished in pop, funk, and R&B, performing on seminal albums with everyone from Frank Zappa to Parliament-Funkadelic. Their recordings are infused with a unique tightness of the horns and … Read More
Iconic Jazz Fusion Outfit The Brecker Brothers Release Long-Lost Concert Audio From Their Incomparable ‘Great Tour of 1980’ on ‘Live and Unreleased’, Out Now on Piloo Records Randy Brecker and Piloo Records has released a historic 1980 live recording of the consummate trumpeter’s seminal band with his late brother Michael Brecker, The Brecker Brothers. Out … Read More
