The Brecker Brothers: The Brecker Bros. - The Complete Arista Albums Collection

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The Brecker Brothers The Brecker Bros.--The Complete Arista Albums Collection e: Legacy Recordings 2012When fusion first emerged in the late 1960s/early '70s with artists like trumpeter m: Miles Davis, pianist m: Chick Corea and guitarist m: John McLaughlin, the emphasis was on guitar and keyboard heavy lineups like m: Return to Forever and m: Mahavishnu Orchestra, with an equally strong predilection for the intensity and volume of rock and a kind of thundering funk that was different than the kind of music coming from R&B and soul artists like m: Stevie Wonder and m: Earth, Wind and Fire. Parallel to that, m: Weather Report began life as a more avant-tinged version of fusion, where the form was often free and, rather than relying on testerone-filled solos, operated in a sphere where, as keyboardist m: Joe Zawinul said, "Everybody solos, and nobody solos." Even when Weather Report began moving towards more groove-centric music with Sweetnighter (Columbia, 1973), freedom was still a fundamental, though by the time the group hit its biggest stride with Heavy Weather (Columbia, 1977), the group had morphed into one where form was paramount, even though interpretive collective soloing still took place within its more rigid constructs...

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