Michael Brecker - Don't Try This At Home (rel.1988)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Michael Brecker Title Don't Try This At Home Length 55:46 Discs: 1 Tracks: 8 Format HQ 192+ kbps Packaging Jewel Case Label Impulse! Cat. Number MCAD42229 Style Fusion Rating N/A Recorded at  Power Station, NYC

Musicians	Credits
Michael Brecker sax tenor, EWI Mike Stern el.guitar Don Grolnick piano Charlie Haden bass Jeff Andrews el.bass Jack DeJohnette drums Adam Nussbaum drums Joey Calderazzo piano Mark O'Connor violin Herbie Hancock piano Peter Erskine drums	Producer Don Grolnick Engineer James Farber Mastering Greg Calbi

Track list

01 Itsbynne Reel 07:45 02 Chime This 07:53 03 Scriabin 07:49 04 Suspone 05:00 05 Don't Try This At Home 09:32 06 Everything Happens When You're Gone 07:15 07 Talking To Myself 05:12 08 The Gentleman & Hizcaine 05:20

Notes

AMG Review by Scott Yanow (4 1/2): Michael Brecker's second album as a leader is almost the equal of his first. Surprisingly, only one song ("Suspone") uses his working quintet of the period (which consists of guitarist Mike Stern, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Jeff Andrews and drummer Adam Nussbaum) although those musicians also pop up on other selections with the likes of pianists Don Grolnick and Herbie Hancock, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Jack DeJohnette and violinist Mark O'Connor. Brecker (on tenor and the EWI) is in superb form, really ripping into the eight pieces (mostly group originals). Recommended. (verve) Grace Paley, the award-winning author and social activist, was once asked if she taught her students to write about what they know. "No," she answered, "I teach them to write what they don't know about what they know." It is precisely this quality of exploration, of stretching out into new, uncharted territory, that characterizes the work of tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker on Don't Try This At Home, his second solo recording. Searching, probing, absorbing, experimenting, analyzing - Brecker is in a constant state of artistic reflection and expansion.