Don't Try This at Home (Michael Brecker album)

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Don't Try This at Home
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 5, 1988
Studio The Power Station (New York City, New York)
  • Master Studio Astoria (Astoria, New York)
Genre Jazz
Length52:39
Label Impulse!
Producer Don Grolnick
Michael Brecker chronology
Michael Brecker
(1987)
Don't Try This at Home
(1988)
Now You See It...Now You Don't
(1990)
Professional ratings
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Don't Try This at Home is the second album by American jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker, that was released on Impulse! records in 1988. In 1989, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

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Reception

Allmusic awarded the album with 4.5 stars and its review by Scott Yanow states: "Brecker (on tenor and the EWI) is in superb form, really ripping into the eight pieces (mostly group originals). Recommended." [3]

Track listing

  1. "Itsbynne Reel" (Michael Brecker, Don Grolnick) – 7:41
  2. "Chime This" (Grolnick) – 7:50
  3. "Scriabin" (Vince Mendoza) – 7:47
  4. "Suspone" (Mike Stern) – 4:59
  5. "Don't Try This at Home" (Brecker, Grolnick) – 9:30
  6. "Everything Happens When You're Gone" (Brecker) – 7:11
  7. "Talking to Myself" (Grolnick) – 5:10
  8. "The Gentleman & Hizcaine" (Jim Beard) – 5:19

Personnel

Technical personnel

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References

  1. Yanow, Scott (2011). "Don't Try This at Home – Michael Brecker | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  2. Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (Penguin, 1992: ISBN   978-0-14-015364-4).
  3. Yanow, S.Allmusic Review: Don't Try This at Home accessed 07 June 2010