Don't_Try_This_at_Home_(Michael_Brecker_album)
Don't Try This at Home (Michael Brecker album)
1988 studio album by Michael Brecker
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.
Quick Facts Don't Try This at Home, Studio album by Michael Brecker ...
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Released | September 5, 1988 | |||
Studio | The Power Station (New York City, New York)
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Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 52:39 | |||
Label | Impulse! | |||
Producer | Don Grolnick | |||
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More information Review scores, Source ...
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Allmusic | [1] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [2] |
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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."[3]
- "Itsbynne Reel" (Michael Brecker, Don Grolnick) – 7:41
- "Chime This" (Grolnick) – 7:50
- "Scriabin" (Vince Mendoza) – 7:47
- "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
- Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone, EWI (1, 4, 5)
- Don Grolnick – acoustic piano (1, 2, 7)
- Herbie Hancock – acoustic piano (3, 5)
- Joey Calderazzo – acoustic piano (4, 6)
- Judd Miller – synthesizer programming (5)
- Jim Beard – synthesizers (7, 8), acoustic piano (8)
- Mike Stern – guitars (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
- Charlie Haden – acoustic bass (1-3, 5, 6)
- Jeff Andrews – fretless electric bass (1, 4, 7, 8), electric bass (4, 7, 8)
- Jack DeJohnette – drums (1, 3, 5, 8)
- Adam Nussbaum – drums (2, 4, 6)
- Peter Erskine – drums (7)
- Mark O'Connor – violin (1)
Production
- Ricky Schultz – executive producer
- Don Grolnick – producer
- James Farber – recording, mixing
- Gary Solomon – assistant engineer (1-6, 8)
- Karen Robben – assistant engineer (7)
- Rhonda Schoen – digital editing
- Greg Calbi – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
- Tom Gill – piano technician
- Jerry Wortman – production assistant
- Karen Kramer – production coordinator
- Kathleen Covert – art direction, design
- Mark Seliger – photography
- George Varga – liner notes
- Yanow, Scott (2011). "Don't Try This at Home – Michael Brecker | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (Penguin, 1992: ISBN 978-0-14-015364-4).
- Yanow, S.Allmusic Review: Don't Try This at Home accessed 07 June 2010