Chords for Michael Brecker memorial video

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_ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] [Em] Jazz [Dm] is just sort of the music of the moment.
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You play in the [Gb] present time and [Abm] then that's it.
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_ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] Critics are saying that finally they are [Bb] seeing you lighten up a little bit and having fun
with [Eb] your music.
[F] Why did it take [Bb] you so [Abm] long?
[Cm] _ Well, I [C] thought I [Ebm] was always having fun.
I [Bb] thought I was having fun.
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_ [G] _ _ _ With saxophone [F] I've always been kind of a hard blower.
_ [G] I put [Ab] a lot of air [N] into it even when I try not to.
When I hit the stage I [D] get into it and I expend [F] a lot of wind. _
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When I was about 14 years old I was pretty convinced that I was going to go into [Gb] medicine.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] And that [Bbm] was until I heard the music of John Coltrane.
[Dbm] I didn't understand it at first.
_ [Bm] It took a [Eb] while.
But once I [Ab] was able to hear it, _ _ everything changed. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [B] _ [N] I see music as a _ spiritual [Bb] endeavor.
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I was 19 years old.
[Fm] I had my brother Randy [Db] who has achieved some degree of success already.
So he just introduced me to everybody.
[Eb] [Db] We [A] played [Eb] together [Db]
like we were connected by umbilical cords.
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bbm] We can read [Ab] each other's minds.
There are things that go unsaid because we don't need to talk about them.
We just [Eb] know how to play together.
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_ _ [G] _ _ When _ [A]
I hit New York [G] back in 1970, _ it was a great time because the barriers between [Ab] [D] rock
and jazz were getting blurry.
_ [G] We walked [D] into this great [G] scene where we could start messing around.
[Ab] _ This sort of gave me a blank page to take what I had learned [Dm] from Coltrane and come
up with a different spin.
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[Bm] _ We got popular among producers because we had a good horn section.
So they started bringing us [F] in to play [Dm] on rock records as a horn section.
Then I started playing solos on some of the records.
It was sort of a chain reaction.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] Still crazy [A] after all [Db] [Gbm] these _ years.
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Crazy.
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[Gm] _ Gonna get in [B] contact.
_ [E] Gonna make [Fm] me clap now.
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ I [Am] attempted for years to find ways to _ [Gm] _ [F] electrify the saxophone.
[Bb] Right around that time the EWI [C] appeared. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Db] It's [Fm] become almost as important to me as [N] the saxophone. _
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I'm certainly [C] a conversationalist [Abm] type player.
I need to be constantly bouncing [Ebm] musical ideas off of the musicians [Bbm] that I'm playing [D] with.
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This [F] might sound strange, but [C] I believe [Dm] strongly in [E] commitment.
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_ [N] Thank you. _ _ _
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