Re: [Harp-L] Michael Brecker RIP

[BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 1/14/2007 2:54:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Last  fall I was at a rehearsal studion in NYC and as I went to the   
bathroom down the hall I heard some sweet sounds, I peaked in a  room  
and spied Michael with Pat Metheny, Gil Goldstein and  Jack
De Johnette....they were workin on Brecker's new CD which I  guess  
will soon be released what I heard that day sounded  terrific!



I'm not ready for this getting  old stuff that keeps happening. Micheal 
Brecker was one the big reasons I  learned to play sax. I will surely miss him. He 
played with feel more than  just about any other sax player around in my 
younger days. IMHO He could  be technical when he wanted to, but when he played I 
could feel it in me  bones. That's what I aspire to do, make people feel what I 
play. "Course I  don't want 'em to feel sick at their stomach but you know 
what I mean. I used  to play drums for a buddy of mine in a practice studio off 
of Houston by  Katz's deli and I always wondered what the people upstairs 
could hear, the  thought that Micheal was in the next studio room across the hall 
would have  pumped me up and terrified me at the same time. Pat Metheny too? 
I'd still be  shakin', how'd you play after seeing those guys in there?
          Randy