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BlueNote
03-02-2006, 07:44 PM
Ok, I've always knew Brecker was a very popular and highly respected saxophonist, but I had no idea that he recorded so much as a sideman. I went to his Wikipedia page and at the bottom it showed his discography. There must have been well over 150 albums he's recorded on as a sideman.

That's insane!
saxamaphony
03-02-2006, 08:08 PM
He's done a lot more than 150 as a sideman I believe. More like 400-500.
RickBusarow
03-02-2006, 08:10 PM
720 albums as a sideman. That's insane. It might even outnumber Phil Woods' albums.
Mike Ruhl
03-02-2006, 08:12 PM
http://www.michaelbrecker.com/oldWebsite/discography-2.htm

Now you know why he's so popular. He's one of, if not the, most-recorded sax players ever.
ZenBen
03-02-2006, 08:17 PM
720 albums as a sideman. That's insane. It might even outnumber Phil Woods' albums.


720 sounds better. i was thinking that 150 was a good year for him.
RickBusarow
03-02-2006, 08:25 PM
720 sounds better. i was thinking that 150 was a good year for him.Yeah, no kidding.

For the record, I do have enough of a life (but just barely) not to sit here and count each album. I just copied and pasted the link into MS Word, then hit "word count." 720 lines = 720 albums.
Louis gerrits
03-03-2006, 06:47 AM
The discography is not complete (by far) by the way. I'm adding some albums on wikipedia every now and then when I have a spare moment. But there are albums in every musicians life who has done studiowork which don't arrive on any list.

Louis
J.Max
03-10-2006, 12:00 AM
Has Brecker ever won the "Best Saxophonist" award in Down Beat Magazine?
Darkstar
03-12-2006, 04:34 AM
I don't know, he certainly should. He's my hero...
Dr_sax
03-12-2006, 09:49 AM
Hereīs a link that might be of interest:
http://homepage.mac.com/takeshiebina/year.html
dirty
03-12-2006, 06:10 PM
Wow, that website is pretty firghtening. Who has the time to assemble all of that information?

I'm not even sure it's complete, either. I'm pretty sure he played on at least one Parliament album that's not listed on there.
Dr_sax
03-12-2006, 07:02 PM
I was thinking the same when a found this site. This is the link to the starting page but I donīt speak or read japanese:
http://homepage.mac.com/takeshiebina/
Louis gerrits
03-14-2006, 05:43 PM
The link is not a discography. It is a list of the collection of this Japense collector. There is something like that on my site. Click on "commercially released"
These kind of lists will never be complete, and it's also not my intention to complete it as it costs to much time.

Louis
mhoyoux
03-16-2006, 11:50 AM
Hello!!

Anthony BRAXTON has ,as a leader, a more important discography...!!

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE5781FDA46AB7420C993274DC4B17BFD10D156 E2AE162F5E58DDBC3D068E027BFD5BE08089E0B839B766AEF9 31A65A0FD586E95CF8D56C383C9D9FDB&uid=MIW040603160749&sql=11:axknikb6bb59~T2



In another category, John ZORN has made several records...


I love BRAXTON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!