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Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light (Shout!)
This 1980 concert, touring mostly behind Hejira, features a dream band: Pat Metheny (guitar), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Lyle Mays (keys), Michael Brecker (sax), and Don Alias (drums). Notoriously stage-shy Joni struts, croons, vamps and charms her way through thirteen numbers, with Jaco providing a solo interval ("The High and the Mighty" and "Third Stone from the Sun") of Pastorian proportions. Numbers include "In France They Kiss on Main Street," "Coyote," "Goodbye Porkpie Hat," "Hejira," "Furry Sings the Blues," and more. Joni's in fabulous voice. It's ...
- Stars shine for saxophonist Michael Brecker.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) February 21, 2007 700+ words
...to remember saxophone player Michael Brecker. And it came to play. Brecker...feeling is once again upon us." Michael Brecker also recorded as a leader and...well as making pop records with Joni Mitchell, Parliament Funkadelic and...
- Jazz All-Star Tour - 'Directions in Music' With Michael Brecker, Herbie...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 25, 2001 700+ words
...Miles Davis, tenor saxophonist MICHAEL BRECKER, keyboardist HERBIE HANCOCK...appear together on KIND OF BLUE. Michael Brecker Brecker's newest release NEARNESS...Springsteen, Zappa, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon -- and countless...
- Michael Brecker.(jazz saxophonist )(Obituary)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Gallo, Phil January 16, 2007 700+ words
Jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker died Saturday in New York of leukemia after a public battle...on albums by Bruce Springsteen, George Benson, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny and James Taylor. Brecker, who lived in Hastingson...
- Michael Brecker scores jazz hits as sax soloist
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Steven Wine November 5, 1988 700+ words
...ultramodern electronic wind instrument, Michael Brecker went to his dressing room to try a...first album, the Grammy-nominated "Michael Brecker," and his new hit, "Don't Try...released a solo album, last year's "Michael Brecker." His current tour is supporting...
- Michael Brecker hits No. 1 in jazz as a solo
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Ken Franckling September 11, 1987 700+ words
NEWPORT, R.I. Michael Brecker is laid-back and low-key in conversation, but the busy...idiom, comes through loud and clear in his latest album, "Michael Brecker," on the MCA-Impulse! label. Brecker's album is the...
- Michael Brecker: El viaje sin retorno de un saxofon.(Primera Fila)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) March 28, 2003 700+ words
...Considerado una de las mximas figuras del jazz, el msico ha grabado con artistas de la talla de Lenon, Sinatra y Chet Baker. Michael Brecker naci en 1949 en el seno de una familia musical. Su padre y su hermano mayor (Randy Brecker) hacan sonar piano y trompeta...
- McCoy Tyner Trio/Michael Brecker Glasgow Festival
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London phil johnson July 5, 1996 700+ words
...of McCoy Tyner's employer, John Coltrane, were characterised by - as a famous description put it - sheets of sound, Michael Brecker is the man who took the sound on into the era of matching duvet and pillow-cases. His work with his brother Randy in...
- JAZZ John Scofield / Michael Brecker RFH, London Jazz Festival
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Phil Johnson November 18, 1996 700+ words
...was a thrilling performance: great music, a great band and a soloist who can even make you like the guitar again. For Michael Brecker, whose quartet closed the show, I have to admit to having a critical blind-spot. He's a superb player (for many...
Source: HighBeam Research, Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light.(Video Recording Review)(Brief...