David Demsey; Sneak Peek into the Michael Brecker Archives and Practice Notebooks, Ep 176 

Around 1:05:00 talking about “Weldon Irving” should be Weldon Irvine. Composer and poet. He composed a good number of deep cuts, one that comes to mind is Mr Clean made famous by Freddie Hubbard, and “Liberated Brother” which appears on a Horace Silver record “In Pursuit of the 27th Man” that Mike and Randy were on.

Thanks Donna, Dave is such a great guy! I visited the archiveand will do again. I'm another Mike Brecker archivist and will make sure my collection (many video's) will also be at the archive.

Excerpts of his transcriptions would be educational; many transcriptions vary, and what he heard/analyzed might tell us something.

Isn't the mouthpiece that Mike used on Pilgrimage a rubber Link that Adam Niewood worked on?

Weldon Irving wrote Mr. Clean, which Freddie Hubbard famously recorded. Maybe Mike lifted some of the cool lines from the head?

I’m a saxophone player who believes Mike is the GOAT. Met him twice after gigs. Super cool dude. He is missed.

This is an amazing podcast! Priceless! Thank you so much and thank you David for keeping Mike’s legacy alive eternally! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Buying the book ASAP!

Thank you for this podcast. Lots of wonderful information. I am surprised, however, Mr. Dempsey is unfamiliar with Jim Pepper. Jim pepper what is a wonderful Coltrane influenced tenor player who became initially well known playing with Larry Coryell and Bob Moses in the band free spirits, and early rock jazz hybrid. Jim pepper became well known as he uses Native American background to inform his work, writing the important tune Witchi Tai To. Michael was certainly influenced by peppers sound and music, and I’m sure there are citations. Pepper his own group for years and was a featured soloist with paul motions group and Charlie Heaton’s liberation music orchestra. His Selmer saxophone is in the permanent collection of the American Indian Museum in Washington DC. He really combines R&B, rock and Coltrane and a powerful sound. Also played an Otto Link.

Thank you so much D. and D. !!

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thanks for this great, fantastic interview Donna….Dave has such an overwhelming, vast pool of sooo so interisting stories to tell….WOOW!!! I wish we could hear him in a weekly blog ☺️….fantastic storyteller….love this to hear so much bachground info on the greats 👌

I was at that concert in Augusta Maine. He did a small clinic before it. Hearing that band warm up before we entered was hard to describe. Felt like the building was resonating from his sound. Unbelievable concert

Excellent! Donna and Dave thank you for this! All great reference Dave and some of the Albums I have them all . Funny like you mentioned the young players don't know these albums. Imagine White Elephant ... Ha ha ha

I found this wonderful. Thanks for all the work, Mr. Demsey and team.

Excellent podcast with a very hip host.

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