- Don't Try This at Home (Michael Brecker album)
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Don't Try This at Home Studio album by Michael Brecker Released 1988 Genre Jazz Length 52:39 Label Impulse! Producer Don Grolnick Michael Brecker chronology Michael Brecker
(1987)Don't Try This at Home
(1988)Now You See It...Now You Don't
(1990)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1] Don't Try This at Home is the second album by the American jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker, that was released on Impulse! records in 1988.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awards this album with 4.5 stars and states: "Brecker (on tenor and the EWI) is in superb form, really ripping into the eight pieces (mostly group originals). Recommended."[2]
Track listing
- "Itsbynne Reel" (Michael Brecker, Don Grolnick) - 7:41
- "Chime This" (Grolnick) - 7:50
- "Scriabin" (Vince Mendoza) - 4:59
- "Suspone" (Mike Stern) - 4:59
- "Don't Try This at Home" (Brecker, Grolnick) - 9:30
- "Everything Happens When You're Gone" (Brecker) - 7:11
- "Talking to Myself" (Grolnick) - 5:10
- "The Gentleman & Hizcaine" (Jim Beard) - 5:19
Personnel
- Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone, EWI
- Herbie Hancock - piano
- Joey Calderazzo - piano
- Don Grolnick - piano
- Jim Beard - synthesizer, piano
- Judd Miller - synthesizer
- Mike Stern - guitar
- Mark O'Connor - violin
- Charlie Haden - bass
- Jeff Andrews - bass
- Jack DeJohnette - drums
- Peter Erskine - drums
- Adam Nussbaum - drums
References
- ^ Yanow, Scott (2011 [last update]). "Don't Try This at Home - Michael Brecker | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r135792. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ^ Yanow, S.Allmusic Review: Don't Try This at Home accessed 07 June 2010
Michael Brecker (discography) As leader Pilgrimage · Wide Angles · Nearness of You · Time Is of the Essence · Two Blocks from the Edge · Tales from the Hudson · Now You See It... Now You Don't · Don't Try This at Home · Michael Brecker · Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall · Gathering of Spirits · CityscapeSteps Ahead Live in Tokyo · Magnetic · Modern Times · Steps Ahead · Paradox · Step By Step · Smokin' In the PitBrecker Brothers Score · East River · Out of the Loop · Return of the Brecker Brothers · Straphangin' · Detente · Heavy Metal Be-Bop · Blue Montreux · Don't Stop the Music · Back To Back · The Brecker Brothers · The Collection, Vol. 1 · The Collection, Vol. 2Dreams Dreams (1970) · Imagine My Surprise (1971)Players Association Born to Dance (1977) · Turn The Music Up (1978)Categories:- 1988 albums
- Michael Brecker albums
- Impulse! Records albums
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