Michael Brecker
by Michael Brecker
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Michael Brecker bestography
Michael Brecker is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Michael Brecker on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Michael Brecker is Pilgrimage which is ranked number 31968 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Michael Brecker track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Michael Brecker rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rivera | Top 42 Music Albums of 1987 | 29/42 | 2 |
| 2025 | byuzak | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | Rivera | Jazz | 66/100 | - |
| 2021 | uDiscoverMusic | The Best Albums Of 1987 | 46/61 | 1 |
| 2018 |  alelsupreme | jazz town | 60/100 | - |
| 2018 | PurpleHazel | Top 51 Music Albums of 1987 | 26/51 | 3 |
| 2016 | alelsupreme | Top 9 Music Albums of 1987 | 3/9 | 4 |
| 2016 | alelsupreme | Top 97 Music Albums of the 1980s | 29/97 | 14 |
| 2013 |  RFNAPLES | Top Jazz Albums, Part 2 | 81/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 27 | |||
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Michael Brecker ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 01/16/2025 01:47 | BorderFreeAndrew | 14,563 | 74/100 |
| ! | 12/19/2023 16:32 |  Maxence | 12,621 | 61/100 |
| ! | 11/26/2023 19:37 |  OldToad | 1,284 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2022 07:32 | mityam | 1,250 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/05/2019 16:23 | Rivera | 2,018 | 82/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.1.
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OldToad 11/26/2023 19:37 | #300155
A wonderful, gorgeous album with one my favorite tracks of all time, the mournful ballad The Cost Of Living. But every track is great, including the synths, a couple of which sound to me like they're being played by Metheny with one of those MIDI guitars that he and McLaughlin were so enamored of. Mainstream 80s jazz at its finest.
Michael Brecker's first solo album after almost two decades as a first-call studio musician and co-leader of the Brecker Brothers has an all-star modern jazz lineup: Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette and Wynton Marsalis' first pianist, Kenny Kirkland. An otherwise excellent record, it's only marred by, it being the late eighties, Kirkland playing mostly synthesizer, so it doesn't date as well as it would've otherwise.
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