Quad LP/Tape Poll Brecker Brothers Band, The: Back to Back [CD-4/Q8]

[steelydave]

The Brecker Bros. sophomore album, one of less than a dozen releases from Arista at the tail end of the quad era in 1976. Aside from Randy and Michael Brecker, the band features a number of musicians who would find individual success including bassist and vocalist Will Lee (later of David Letterman's house band), saxophonist David Sanborn, and session keyboardist extraordinaire Don Grolnick. The album is bolstered by session contributions from drummer Steve Gadd (who kills it on the frenetic Night Flight) and a pre-solo fame Luther Vandross, who did the vocal arrangements and backing vocals, shortly after he fulfilled the same role on David Bowie's Young Americans album.



Arista AQ 4061 [CD-4 LP] Arista 7301-4061 H [Q8]
Discogs links: LP / Q8
Wiki page for the album: Back to Back

Quadraphonic remix engineer: Jimmy Douglass (Douglass is one of only a handful of engineers to have done both quad and 5.1 remixes, with 5.1 mixes of Missy Elliott's Miss E... So Addictive and Marvin Gaye's Midnight Love to his credit, amongst others.)


Side 1:

1. "Keep it Steady (Brecker Bump)"
2. "If You Wanna Boogie...Forget It"
3. "Lovely Lady"
4. "Night Flight"

Side 2:

1. "Slick Stuff"
2. "Dig a Little Deeper"
3. "Grease Piece"
4. "What Can a Miracle Do"
5. "I Love Wastin' Time With You"

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Surprised this one hasn't garnered more attention here, as it's a great funky powerhouse of an album by top notch musicians. The CD-4 has some really nice separation and dynamics.

I see it is labeled to Arista, which IINM is now owned by Sony (?); so not sure if we will ever get a modern digital version of this unless it's via Sony's 360RA (streaming only.) Probably not popular enough for one of those SACD 7" packages, and not sure they'd do that for an "Arista" labeled title either. Maybe best hope would be from Dutton Vocalion.

Such a shame that great Quad like this will only be experienced by a few!

I'm also going with a 10 vote - viva @fredblue