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Michael Brecker: Two Blocks From The Edge

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In May 1988, “Impulse!” label released “Two Blocks from the Edge”, the 17th Michael Brecker album (as leader or co-leader). It was recorded in 1997, “Avatar Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Joey Calderazzo and Michael Brecker.

Personnel:

  • Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone, arrangements
  • Joey Calderazzo – acoustic piano
  • James Genus – bass
  • Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts – drums
  • Don Alias – percussion
  • Joey Calderazzo – arrangements
  • James Farber – recording, mixing
  • Rory Romano – recording assistant, mixing assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering 
  • Steve Fallone – mastering assistant
  • Hollis King – art direction
  • Kevin Gaor – design
  • Timothy White – photography
  • Gitte Gammelgaard – band photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Michael Brecker, except where noted.

  1. Madame Toulouse
  2. Two Blocks from the Edge
  3. Bye George – Joey Calderazzo
  4. El Niño – Joey Calderazzo
  5. Cat’s Cradle – Joey Calderazzo
  6. The Impaler – Jeff “Tain” Watts
  7. How Long ‘Til the Sun
  8. Delta City Blues

Wynton Marsalis: Hot House Flowers

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On December 18, 1984, “Columbia” label released “Hot House Flowers”, the third Wynton Marsalis album. It was recorded in May 1984, at “RCA Studio A” in New York City, and was produced by George Butler and Steven Epstein. The album won “Grammy Award” for “Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist” in 1985.

Personnel:

  • Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
  • Branford Marsalis – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Kent Jordan – alto flute
  • Paul McCandless – oboe, English horn
  • Andrew Schwartz – bassoon
  • Peter Gordon – French horn
  • Tony Price – tuba
  • Kenny Kirkland – piano
  • Ron Carter – double bass
  • Jeff “Tain” Watts – drums
  • Charles Libove (concertmaster), Ingrid Arden, Peter Dimitriades, Gayle Dixon, Guillermo Figueroa, Winterton Garvey, Harry Glickman, Regis Iandiorio, Ray Kunicki, Patmore Lewis, Diane Monroe, Louann Montesi – violin
  • Al Brown, Theodore Israel, Mitsue Takayama, Harry Zaratzian – viola
  • Seymour Barab, Richard Locker, Alvin McCall, Frederick Zlotkin – cello
  • Bob Freedman – arranger, orchestrator, conductor

Track listing:

  1. Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
  2. Lazy Afternoon – Jerome Moross, John Latouche
  3. For All We Know – John Frederick Coots, Sam M. Lewis
  4. When You Wish upon a Star – Ned Washington, Leigh Harline
  5. Django – John Lewis
  6. Melancholia – Duke Ellington
  7. Hot House Flowers – Wynton Marsalis
  8. I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You) – Al J. Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds