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Don't Try This at Home (Michael Brecker album)

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Released
  
1988

Artist
  
Michael Brecker

Producer
  
Don Grolnick

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
52:39

Release date
  
1988

Label
  
Impulse! Records

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Don't Try This at Home(1988)
  
Now You See It...Now You Don't(1990)

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Michael Brecker albums, Jazz albums

Don't Try This at Home is the second album by American jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker, that was released on Impulse! records in 1988. In 1989, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album with 4.5 stars and its review by Scott Yanow states: "Brecker (on tenor and the EWI) is in superb form, really ripping into the eight pieces (mostly group originals). Recommended."

Track listing

  1. "Itsbynne Reel" (Michael Brecker, Don Grolnick) – 7:41
  2. "Chime This" (Grolnick) – 7:50
  3. "Scriabin" (Vince Mendoza) – 4:59
  4. "Suspone" (Mike Stern) – 4:59
  5. "Don't Try This at Home" (Brecker, Grolnick) – 9:30
  6. "Everything Happens When You're Gone" (Brecker) – 7:11
  7. "Talking to Myself" (Grolnick) – 5:10
  8. "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

    • Songs

    1Itsbynne Reel7:43
    2Chime This7:51
    3Scriabin7:47

    References

    Don't Try This at Home (Michael Brecker album) Wikipedia
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