Michael Brecker - Now You See It . . . (Now You Don't)
Artist: Michael Brecker
Title: Now You See It . . . (Now You Don't)
Audio CD (August 17, 1990)
Original Release Date: 1990
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Grp Records
Genre: Jazz
Styles: post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Saxophone Jazz,
Jazz Instrument, Crossover Jazz
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Cover Included
Tracks:
1 Escher Sketch (A Tale Of Two Rhythms)
2 Minsk
3 Ode To The Doo Da Day
4 Never Alone
5 Peep
6 Dogs In The Wine Shop
7 Quiet City
8 The Meaning Of The Blues
Personnel:
Michael Brecker: Sax (Tenor), EWI, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Drum Programming
Victor Bailey Bass (1-2, 4-7)
Don Alias Percussion (1, 3-4, 6, 7)
Jon Herington Guitar (1-3, 5)
Jim Beard Keyboards, Synthesizer
Adam Nussbaum Drums, Cymbals
Joey Calderazzo Piano (2, 5-6, 8)
Omar Hakim Drums (4, 7)
Jay Anderson Acoustic Bass (5, 8)
Milton Cardona Percussion (6)
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Review by Scott Yanow
For Now You See It..., Michael Brecker's third recording as a leader, the tenor great used different personnel on most of the selections but played consistently well. Jim Beard's synthesizers were utilized for atmosphere, to set up a funky groove, or to provide a backdrop for the leader. Some of the music sounds like updated John Coltrane (Joey Calderazzo's McCoy Tyner-influenced piano helps), while other pieces could almost pass for Weather Report, if Wayne Shorter rather than Joe Zawinul had been the lead voice. Most of the originals (either by Brecker, Beard, or producer Don Grolnick) project moods rather than feature strong melodies, but Michael Brecker's often-raging tenor makes the most of each opportunity.
Michael Brecker's work in the '70s and early '80s as both ahigh-profile session musician and one-half of the fusion-lite Brecker Brothers with his trumpeter brother Randy does little to prepare listeners for his somewhat more challenging solo records. 1990's NOW YOU SEE IT...NOW YOU DON'T is a remarkable album breathing new life into a style of jazz-fusionwhich had seemed moribund for ages.
Brecker and his revolving cast of musicians, largely anchored by Jim Beard's atmospheric, sometimes almost Eno-esque synthesizers, play withpassion and intensity. Brecker's storming solos on "Peep" meld John Coltrane's sheets of sound technique to Wayne Shorter's fearless improvisatory style, and the opening "Escher Sketch" explores polyrhythms like nobody in fusion had since the early days of Weather Report. Excellent stuff.
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An excellent 1990 GRP label jazz fusion album by the master of the tenorsaxophone. Michael Brecker's third album is a mixed and variedcomposition of synthesized orchestration with amazing saxophone playinginterjected between tracks.
The slow intensification of Brecker's improvisation on Track 2 called"Minsk" is a good example of where he best displays his mastery of theinstrument...staggeringly well played.
However, Track 3 on the CD is totally out of character with the others,called "Ode to the Doo Da Day". Track 5 called, "Peep" is fast andfurious with tremendous jazz piano from Joey Calderazzo and AdamNaussbaum's great drumming coupled with Brecker's consummate control ofthe sax throughout.
Dogs in the wine shop has some great chords with EWI programming by JuddMiller.
The album gets a 3-star rating in 1994's Penguin Guide to Jazz, saying,"snappy and clean" but I think it's a 5-star winner for originality andsuperb playing. Buy this CD...if you're a real jazz fusion fan, you won'tbe disappointed.
