Randy Brecker

2-LP SET EDITION

Nominative determinism was never so much in evidence as in the title for this new album by Randy Brecker. He rocks. And rocks hard.

"Jazz-rock" – of which nine slices of varying thickness are served along with a sweet relish dished out by the NDR Big Band isn’t everyone’s preferred choice of jazz repast. Lying somewhere between the clean-cut sound of smooth and the hard punch of bop, when done badly it can sound derivative. Done well – as here – it’s an exciting, edge-of-the-seat, knock-your-socks-off mortar bomb of sound. And Brecker’s the perfect man to throw it.

PERSONNEL:

• RANDY BRECKER, trumet, flugelhorn
• DAVID SANBORN, alto sax
• ADA ROVATTI, tenor & soprano sax
• WOLFGANG HAFFNER, drums
• NDR BIGBAND - THE HAMBURG RADIO JAZZ ORCHESTRA

SIDE A:

• 01. Frist Tune Of The Set
• 02. Adina

SIDE B:

• 03. Squids
• 04. Pastoral

SIDE C:

• 05. The Depshit
• 06. Above and Below

SIDE D:

• 07. Sozinho
• 08. Rocks
• 09. Threesome