Mike Brecker Band "Original Rays" Wiesen Austria

Michael Brecker Group
July 9, 1989
Mike Brecker: Tenor
Mike Stern: Guitar
Jeff Andrews: Bass
Adam Nussbaum: Drums
Joey Calderazzo: Piano

[@ralfbettker-cuza7432]

Listening to Michael Brecker is the essence of musical happiness. Life is good.

[@TheArnoldnikolaus]

His fast precise technique is on the next level, clear phrasing at breakneck speed, but the real joy is this Brecker (tenor) sound. Like all of you, I just can't get enough. Too much Michael Brecker is not enough.

[@hashimotoyuji7075]

Just great. Never seen EWI performance greater than this. miss you, Mike.

[@jazzrockin3646]

Having owned the Japanese CD import for many years, I was completely blown by the music, but underwhelmed with the sound quality. When I viewed this video for the first time, it delivered tears of joy...I was literally crying; the poor quality didn't matter. This is it, right here...music at its finest. Tune in to your local radio station and you'll hear nothing like it...Emotionless noise sans actual musicians. It'll never be the same.

[@PatchmanMusic]

Absolutely stunning performances by Michael Brecker on EWI and Mike Stern on guitar and the whole band.

[@DylanEichenbergTahoe]

Epic jam!! Extended solo at the beginning was amazing too, definitely cutting edge for its time! Such a great song, I want to hear every version!

[@DurchgezocktHD]

how can someone be that awesome ?!?!?

[@djstacktrace]

Definitely ahead of his time! Love the calculator watch too....

[@WouterTurkenburg]

It does not get much better than this!

[@PhilippSammern]

Thank you so much for the upload! I was at this concert - as a 10 year old boy. The line up at this festival was incredible. I never felt this much energy and intensity at a music festival again. Mike Stern played on sunday evening, after many hours of incredibly live performances. I still remember this tune - after 27 years. And today I found this video. Thanks you for the video! And thanks to my parents to take me to the Jazz Fest Wiesen!

[@Jordarr8994]

do you play as well?

[@peterhofman7188]

wow

[@mariusardeleanu3884]

You were so lucky, I can say ...

[@vmertane]

Hello Philipp. Can you remember who was filming this footage? Was it ORF or some smaller channel?

[@rinkinkel]

I was at his concert in Amsterdam, same tour I think. I was 18. Hooked for life.

[@rinkinkel]

This song reaches every emotion.

[@rottendrestantje]

The greatest music I've ever heard. I was at a concert somewhere in the late eighties in a Drum Jazz Festival tent that was rather to small and well packed and then he told us to all sit down for the concert. We could hardly stand, let alone sit but it work out and I left that concert with a very special feeling. Like everyone there had become family somehow. I'm grateful for his music and in hindsight, I feel privileged having been there. People who can give like that are very special. The memory will last.

[@MichaelJSmithMJPS]

One of the best, if not the best saxophone player of all time. Too bad he passed so young!!

[@andretwigt8788]

Januari 13th 2007… I miss this guy everyday. RIP MICHAEL…

[@CentreLine2]

Literally one of the best videos of him.

[@mikaakoo]

Again incredible work to create this wonderful collection of the Breckers's music

[@vincentpellerin]

Fantastic "presentation" of the new EWI in that era, but this is my all time favorite Brecker Tenor solo ever...(After the piano solo at the end). This guy inspired me so much!

[@technical234]

indeed

[@haysfordays]

Whoa....I don;t recall seeing him get into it so physically as well! Amazing! Have u seen his solo on the JVC festival around this same time?? Love that solo to bits as well.

[@tatsuyashishido8545]

One of Michael's best solo!

[@jimmythebold589]

yes!

[@mikepaul7122]

totally amazing musicianship. Brecker will live forever. At least in my collection he will.

[@albertoguerrero3659]

This is just so exhilarating!!! Damn I love his music.

[@Ichiban001]

Thanks for sharing this great video clip. I realized Michael rules post Coltrane Jazz saxophone. Great show!

[@Johneladjmi76]

Thanks for uploading this great band and performance. Greeting from Switzerland 🇨🇭👍👍

[@docsaxman]

Amazing. Pure genius. Hard work. Much love....

[@MrDaveaccord]

Mike was a musical genius, one of the greatest of his generation.

[@wernerreiter201]

Yeah - happy to have seen and heard this live .....

[@steini6771]

What can I say? Just Outstanding!!!!

[@giovannidaza4574]

Each solo of Brecker was amazing!

[@haysfordays]

Gotta say...this is the first time listening that I thought the EWI was on par with the sax as far as entertainment goes. Wouldn't want a whole show of it....but this guy...my lord, what he did with it...and in 19 effing 89!!!!

[@brianmatthews7607]

Anyone got a time machine they're not using? booking a slot for Austria July 9, 1989 :-D

[@davec8009]

This video should have billions of views

[@rottendrestantje]

That's what I thought but most people don't understand this or just hate music in general. They have radio all day long. Poor souls.

[@jbcarbou]

I so love this song! Michael Brecker "Original Rays" EWI intro - on Upright bass

[@jennifervo9966]

Love the 'Four Brothers' lick

[@MuriMorello]

watch what he does to stern 9:33 hahaha lol

[@rrr1063]

Third Stone from the Sun

[@jeancourtioux1311]

Mike, reviens du paradis des jazzmen, tu nous manques !!!

[@thebratsax]

Mike, the best❤️❤️

[@alexts94]

This is so cool, Mike's ideas are fucking insane

[@jacobthebatchbandit3092]

5:15 this guy really played jimi hendrix what a legend

[@MsLacy707]

💋 You Freaky kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGjUpKOvpJl0qLM

[@hieronymousse]

Thank you so much Louis, I've cherished the CD version of this gig for many years - it's brilliant to finally be able to see their interaction and the fun they manage to have whilst playing an amazing series of solos!

[@893165009]

Whats the name of the CD?

[@ewi4000]

The CD was a bootleg. Released on the Jazz Door label. The artists did not receive any money for it. Title of the CD was Michael Brecker Band Live.

[@hieronymousse]

Kaeman McDonald www.amazon.com/Michael-Brecker-Band-Live-1989/dp/B000QX0M9K

[@gezamart5803]

Ez valami csoda!

[@thebreathalyzer]

Too bad they didn't cut to Mike's reaction at the end of the guitar solo like they did in the Newport video...had to be priceless!!! All that footwork with the pedals though... wow

[@Marunius]

Is it this recording? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJLNZKiNaNpspMk

[@thebreathalyzer]

@@Marunius That's the one. They're having so much FUN... we saw that band not too long after that and it was fantastic.

[@user-bn4bu8lj3i]

Cool jazz . Go Mike Breaker

[@xani8826]

MB plays crazy ... unbelievable fantastic on Akai and Mark VI either way ...... mind blowing 💪

[@SeanFenlon]

Michael Brecker is in The Pantheon (along with Bird, Coltrane, Jarrett, Metheny, Jacob Collier, etc.) :-)

[@brockbah2048]

was with you until collier lol

[@SapphireAdizes]

@@brockbah2048 lol agreed

[@SHAWVEE]

Collier 🤢 (beavis and butthead voice) - this sucks.!

[@bengtwahlstedt1021]

MASTER !!!!!!

[@garyhartle9650]

4:08 My head just exploded!

[@custino22]

une tuerie digne des entrailles de l'enfer.

[@yggdrasil9039]

For the purists, MB puts down the technology at 10:09

[@steffenbrix]

❤

[@tonibasanta3419]

HAY QUIEN SE ATREVE A DECIR y a PUBLICAR QUE EL JAZZ ES MUSICA de MINORIAS. Escuchar a Michael Brecker y a sus musicos es la esencia misma de la felicidad musical. Miren de la manera que sale el guitarrista Mike Stern, luego de la intro del Capitan Brecker ! SIENTE EL RITMO con The Michael Brecker Group July 9, 1989 Mike Brecker (tenor & EWI), Mike Stern (guitar) Jeff Andrews (bass), Adam Nussbaum (drums) Joey Calderazzo (piano)

[@samueltillberg9136]

6:05 anyone know if that quote is from Star Wars, and if so, which movie, and which track?

[@markviman]

When the stage IS your studio

[@leonnascimentooficial]

Calderazzooooooooo 11:53

[@hielehielehiele]

jawohl!

[@Marunius]

Amazing but there is just something about the Newport version that moves me even more.

[@criswar1]

mamma mia!

[@ximbauchyama]

Jaco revisited )

[@lucazanardelli2532]

Best tenor player of the history, better than Coltrane, more class putting every single note , sublime technique, miss me Michael

[@Mwgsyboy]

Bravo Luca, verissimo!

[@avenpigatt7841]

"better than Coltrane" LOL

[@nairdazitro7460]

@@avenpigatt7841 Why wouldn't he ? Because Coltrane was great doesn't mean he cannot be surpassed.. Stop idolazing people like this they're mere mortals with their own limits like anybody else.

[@avenpigatt7841]

@@nairdazitro7460 lol

[@nairdazitro7460]

@@avenpigatt7841 You have no argument. You know you're a snob.

[@metrakos]

saw this exact band in around 87 or 88 in Toronto at the Diamond Club...it blew me away....who was this drummer anyone?

[@robbyr9286]

Adam Nussbaum

[@wyndhl9465]

(EWI) Mouth Synthesizer/(EWI) Sax-O-Synth

[@pleximanic]

Electric Wind Instrument

[@paulmichaelsmith3207]

What a fuckin' band.

[@NeilRaouf]

holy camoley!

[@ericwilhelm2941]

CrazyGood

[@bradking1067]

Ha,20:00 Mike (Stern) goes beast.Thanks for sharing hope you are well God loves you deeply Shalom 🎸 🔊🏞️⛰️🏔️🎊🎉✨🎇🎆🎈🐕🕊️🌷✝️❤️

anybody transcribed this solo?

[@stillphil]

15:12

[@mcmike100]

Akai MPX-820 mixer

[@dylanhensley1973]

5:15

[@Idanbo]

Can someone tell me whats the big white box that he is connected to under the matrix 12?

[@ewi4000]

The EWI analogue dedicated module. AKAI EWV 2000. Connected with a multicable to the EWI

[@ewi4000]

Beneath the EWV 2000 there's a AKAI mixer which was capable of automation via midi . AKAI MPX 820

[@Idanbo]

Thank you so much! Can ypu tell me whats in the box next to it?

[@Idanbo]

You can see it in 7:54

[@sheskimusic]

15:11 soundmans hat flys off.

[@mcmike100]

2 Yamaha 4115 cabinets for monitors.

[@Freddie3487]

Louis CK on drums...

[@mysund]

Only drums Louis CK does is chicken drums.

[@JoshGarsideMeyers]

There are multiple videos with this comment lmao

[@Kcets]

So Mike Stern on Guitar and Buford Justice on Drums, can some kind scholar name the bass and piano players?

[@ewi4000]

what do you mean? The musicians are in the description.

[@Kcets]

Oh shit, I didn't even check. Silly me. Thanks brother, and thanks for the amazing upload.

[@billarchibald5106]

It's Joey Calderazo on keys, Jeff Andrews on bass, & Adam Nussbaum on drums.

[@MrOleVedel]

Buford T Justice on the drums.

[@gj8683]

When he takes off the sunglasses, he transforms into Louis CK.

[@user-bn4bu8lj3i]

I meant Brecker.

[@Paladin88]

Is that smoke coming off of the tenor after he puts it down??

[@thestonecutters6177]

hes copying Jaco

[@Ivan-uu9is]

15:52