HA! Animal- I bet Weckl would like that!

After seeing this, it reminded me I had not ever picked up Express. What did they play from that one, or do you have a set list? I can't imagine how good it must have been to have Weckl sittin in....any reason why Haffner wasn't there? Just wondered.

Express is pretty good overall, I can tell a few of the tunes will have to grow on me- the first tune (Red Fish) has a lot of synth horns, and in some spots it's a bit too "synth-y" sounding for me, but that's a very minor criticism. Up Above The Stars has got some seriously rock/shredding guitar leads in the mid section, around 3 minutes or so...Slow Down is great also. Seems every tune is surprising and dynamic, but often a bit hard to follow- will have to listen a few times to "train" my ear for it.

Excellent work by Will Lee, has got to be one of the unsung heroes of bass.

I wish the "typical" smooth jazz listener could hear more of Chuck Loeb playing like this, he's just astounding at times, very un-smooth, and not even fusion so much as flat out rock.

TY...

I don't remember the entire set list.... but these tunes come to mind:

- crosscurrents
- the standard for Michael Brecker
- lo lo shuffle
- field of dreams

thanks Kat- I like the Standard (For MB)- nice tune. The others I'll have to look up on my other computer, haven't migrated all my music to this one yet...another chore on my list

I would have loved to have seen the talent on stage there- And with Weckl sitting in, I'm sure I would have been in awe....what a great drummer.

Got anymore pics?

Later
TY

I do have more photos.... the other 4 are in a separate post, and the whole set can be seen on my MySpace... click on pics.

http://www.myspace.com/nekoproductions

My favorite is the pic of Randy Brecker smiling .... after the show, he said to me..."you were having the best time of everybody who was here tonight".