Michael Brecker with Saxophone Summit, Tearing the Roof off Birdland.

 


This week's Sunday Special.  From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

December 18, 1999, All Blues (Davis), Birdland, New York City, Saxophone Summit featuring Michael Brecker with Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Phil Markowitz and Billy Hart.

The tune is Miles Davis's "All Blues" from the 1959 masterpiece record "Kind of Blue".  


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