Nothing Personal Herbie Hancock Quartet Featuring Michael Brecker

Herbie Hancock Quartet Featuring Michael Brecker.
Montreux Switzerland
July 7, 1988
Herbie Hancock: Piano
Michael Brecker: tenor
Buster Williams: Bass
Al Foster: Drums

[@kentbyron7608]

Al Foster swings harder than the King's golden gate. What a master! Check out how much he milks the ride cymbal on this tune. So much taste....

[@jeanlucchapelon]

Buster Williams is underated : my favorite bass sound !

[@zangsax]

I like the way Michael pays a little homage to Wayne before he goes full Brecker mode. After all hes playing with Herbie.

[@samferguson9171]

Good point. He really does sound like Wayne early in solo.

[@jazzdive102]

Let's not overlook the humble chord player....so we all wish for such absolute mastery of music. Sublime comping, brilliant soling. Herbie Hancock, half man, half piano.

[@eberniewon]

Indeed...

[@GrumpyStormtrooper]

I wish I could play 10% as good as Hancock

[@sonicmuse]

Half man, half piano, yes, but I GOTTA believe there’s a healthy dose of alien DNA… which I know throws off the percentages, but… lol!

[@richardpotter7298]

Amen Amen..... these guys changed my life

[@richardpotter7298]

@@sonicmuse I agree Sir....these sounds is not of earth. This is Holy Music of the Universe

[@zangsax]

I love every version of this tune. This might be my favorite.

[@btRU_funQsta]

arguably, closest parallel to early Weather Report dynamic - ferocious, yet cerebral

[@postmodernmusicalsophist2503]

Needless to say how good Herbie is.

[@slateman118]

brecker's solo is incredible, and then herbie's solo is even better, and then buster william's is my favorite. never have i seen a bass solo on a song this fast, especially with no accompaniment, keep the momentum going this much.

[@brucelaudenberger8056]

As Miles once told Herbie, don't always play just the butter notes. I think he listened. WOW! And Michael just plowing through those arpeggios like a snow ball rolling down a hill picking up speed along the way. A driving rhythm section makes all the right stops in time! Bravo!

[@ypolchenko-freejazz-guitar]

those masters year after year bring something new nobody heard before. Incredible.

[@TheAaronRodgersTao]

This is beautiful.

[@thebreathalyzer]

I love it when Al Foster looks at Mike... it's like he's thinking "Now, hit the GAS!!!!" Zooom!

[@williambeck6364]

I always enjoy anything with Al Foster on drums!

[@ivolime]

this brecker guy knows how to do it

[@jackturner3721]

Whatever Michael Brecker is playing on, should be a thumbs up!

[@raymondkarlsson9794]

And the rest of the quartet, what can you say? Magic

[@stevesalerno4953]

Mike Brecker's explosion of in-and-out arpeggios after 3:00 is the very essence of the modern jazz solo. Herbie's expression at 3:30 says it all. What a group...

[@richardpotter7298]

Yes. It's why I have the cover of Micheal Brecker s.... Don't try this at home on...TATTOOED ON MY ARM....He changed my life...I actually came up with a Dave Guardala super king Mouthpiece for Tenor

[@richardpotter7298]

All these cats are saints

[@rakutzimbel4539]

The "mean" Brecker! :P This is one of my favorite performances of Nothing Personal. Of course Hancock and Foster are co-genius brothers, so is Williams, but Brecker's solo is so mean and cheeky, the man was absolutely on his jazz top there.

[@MarkLignell]

Damn this is happening everybody’s really on top of their game on this performance and sounding very cohesive.

[@c.b9899]

Greattttt 👏

[@raepaul8158]

Wonderful

[@docnelson2008]

Thank you Louis-another great upload from your wonderful collection of music by the late, much missed, Michael Brecker. He was awesome.

[@jazznazijr]

Herbie is amazeballs!

[@RedAlEarttDramaMeanWhoDat]

Buster's tone though -- Damn!

[@pauloteixeira9427]

Great bass solo , What a composition !

[@laverdad8915]

Wow Herbie, at 7:20. What a feel!

[@laverdad8915]

That whole minute!

[@RonCarterBassist]

👏🏾👏🏾

[@raymondkarlsson9794]

Herbie! Unbelievable playing 🙏🏻

[@harolddixonjr3554]

This Don Grolnik tune is on Brecker's first solo album, "Michael Brecker". It's the first song.

[@robinnicaise1978]

No, it's the fourth. Best regards!

[@ewi4000]

+Robin Nicaise correct!

[@laverdad8915]

Great lick around 4:30

[@ErikVeldkampMusic]

Te gek! Bedankt voor het uploaden.

[@ryanodonnell2923]

Damn... Grooving so hard I was I could play with feel like that drummer

[@ethanfang939]

8:35 the lick kind of

[@petergroen3436]

geweldig dit :-)

[@raymondkarlsson9794]

”Some” notes to explore in Michael’s and Herbie’s solos 😌

[@_homi-cz6my]

Bravo

[@chirilcojocari5388]

Великолепно

[@ihatekittyz]

the tone on that contrabass...

[@adgo22]

He uses black nylon strings, gives it that nice growl..of course it's all in the hands as Jaco always said,,but I think the strings add to it...

[@richardpotter7298]

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL..... I actually have a Dave Guardala super king tenor mouthpiece I play on.... n I have the cover of ...Don't Try This At Home ...tattooed on my Arm. Git it Mike

[@joshharris4407]

You dig!

[@MatthijsGeerts]

3:50 - 4:19 - 4:38 - 4:51

[@alfonsoocaranza7269]

hermano, como toca Buster!!!

[@missingmylink]

Wow, great share. Michael is lit and the band is smoking. Herbie, Herbie, Herbie, the one and only; and Alex foster is a hover craft. Love seeing Michael swallow the microphone with his bell which I am told he picked up from Joe Henderson.

[@jibsmokestack1]

Aloysius not Alex!

[@jazkat56]

Smokin'

[@PawelKaczmarczykMusic]

11:46 💥💥💥

[@warcraftiireplays7426]

1:32 muppet character! :D miss you michael

[@omko73]

Warcraft II Replays zoot 😂

[@eliminemusic]

!!!

[@surianstob6558]

@9:47 he's paying homage to Horace Silver's solo on "senor blues".

[@enricomarconi8358]

Mr speaker, I'm sorry this is NOT a composition by Michael Brecker but jazz pianist Don Grolnick!! The piece, however, appeared on the Breacker's album with Metheny, Kirkland, DeJohnette and Haden as sidemen.

[@tnilab]

do you have "i didn't know what time it was" by rodgers/hart from the same 1988 concert? that is an unbelieveable version...

[@birgitbofarull4410]

Unsurpassable

[@TheTimananda]

almost sounds like a Don Grolnik tune

[@ewi4000]

It is by Don Grolnick

[@timshullberg4195]

Louis Gerrits it reminded me of some tunes he wrong for Michael Brecker's "Escher Sketch" album good ear, hunh ?

[@kentbyron7608]

Wow, good ear. Yes!

[@vi99da32]

Is that a Horace Silver call back at 9:47

[@TheSaxon25]

Pretty cool right?!?!

[@raymondkarlsson9794]

Went up ”a bit” in tempo but nothing personal 🤣

[@simon12332]

5:45 - 5:58 Brutality

[@howardrobinson4938]

Um...I believe this would have blown Ludwig's mind.

[@samferguson9171]

haha herbie thinks the grolnick tune is strange?

[@ivolime]

8:35 the lick

[@yggdrasil9039]

Nothing personal, but while Herbie's solo is amazing, I don't think his comping is really in harmony with Michael during his solo, which really need more of a harmonic platform for Michael to act against. When Herbie comes out with such amazing harmonic voicings it's just wonderful and it's a shame he didn't bring that to bear in this solo, rather than trying to compete with the soloist.

[@Osnosis]

This is more of a ‘building on fire’ situation, so the comping is really percussive more than harmonic.