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#2092325 - 07/01/09 11:10 PM What tune is Mike Stern playing on here?
Jazz+ Offline
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Anybody know the title of tune?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4clGilSow

I heard Mike play it live with The Brecker Brothers in the 90's and the solo he did the night I saw it has always stuck in my mind but I don't know what album it was ever on. He plays with an urgent sense of almost delerious abandonment. I like the way the distortion kicks in at 2:40 and then Chambers cuts loose with double kick drumming at 4:05


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#2092353 - 07/02/09 04:34 AM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: Jazz+]
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it sounds like "Song For Barry" from Return of the Brecker Brothers
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#2092354 - 07/02/09 04:36 AM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: Karl Sutton]
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I never realized Mike was on that album - cool!
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#2092455 - 07/02/09 08:58 AM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: Karl Sutton]
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Chambers is a favorite drummer. He was McLaughlin's main drummer for several years

I think Stern was the Brecker Bros guitarist for quite a while until he went solo
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#2092463 - 07/02/09 09:04 AM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: Karl Sutton]
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I think that's right...
song for Barry pt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBtJQyF1c...PL&index=48
Song for Barry pt 2
(which picks up mid-vamp just before Stern's solo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzZlWCR4...PL&index=49

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#2092499 - 07/02/09 09:57 AM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: d]
Jazz+ Offline
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Thanks, I actually forgot that I have a complete chart for "Song For Barry"

Great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzZlWCR4...PL&index=49

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#2092535 - 07/02/09 11:07 AM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: Jazz+]
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...isn't this the git-tar player that's most recently been playing w/YellowJackets ?...

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#2092642 - 07/02/09 04:31 PM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: Start/Run]
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Something must be in the air! I was just transcribing "Spherical" from that record last weekend. What a killing track!

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#2093577 - 07/06/09 05:08 PM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: lucasb]
orangefunk Offline
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Is the "Barry" referring to Barry Finnerty you think?

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#2093660 - 07/06/09 09:18 PM Re: What tune is Mike Stern playing on here? [Re: orangefunk]
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It was Barry Rogers, a trombonist who worked in New York with several latin bands but recorded from the mid sixties to the late eighties with artists like Ron Carter, Cal Tjader, Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers and Don Grolnick. He was a founding member of Dreams and did countless sideman record dates with The Brecker Brothers. Rogers' death shortly begore the recording of "Return of the Brecker Brothers" propmted Michael's tune Song For Barry.

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