Been looking for this for ages. Such a great band. I love Michael Brecker's solo here and Ben Sidran's description of the preparation before they took the stage at Montreux:
The rehearsals for this recording were brief. For example, before we went on stage, I asked Randy Brecker if he knew Benny Golson's "I Remember Clifford" in Eflat. That was the rehearsal. The result is as Miles Davis once said -- "I don't want you to play what you know; I want you to play what you don't know" -- surprising.
And here is audio of the same band doing a Beatle's classic. I believe the phenomenal drummer, Steve Jordan, was 19 at the time.
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