Michael Leonard Brecker, saxophonist: born Philadelphia 29 March 1949; married (one son, one daughter); died New York 13 January 2007. Michael Brecker was widely considered to be the most influential ...

Perhaps unfairly overshadowed by his brother, the late saxophonist Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker has, nevertheless been one of the most significant trumpeters of the past forty years. While his small ...

With the tragic passing of Michael Brecker in 2007 at the all-too-young age of 57, it seemed that the flagship group the Brecker Brothers, co-led by the saxophonist with his trumpet-wielding older ...

Since hitting New York City in the late 1960s he’s been in the thick of the action, playing hard bop with Horace Silver, jazz/rock fusion with Dreams, and jazz/funk with the Brecker Brothers, the ...

Randy and Michael Brecker’s first jam session was in the bathroom they shared between their bedrooms. The boys loved the way the bathroom made their sound bounce around the walls. That may, in fact, ...

Randy Brecker still has not made up a set list. Days before he takes the stage at Lehigh University's Zoellner Arts Center in Bethlehem, Brecker, talking by phone from a Manhattan hotel, says he isn't ...

The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion convened an all-star cast – including saxophonist David Sanborn and drummer Dave Weckl – for the recent comeback album celebrating the repertoire that had made the ...

Michael Brecker, a versatile and highly influential tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammys over a career that spanned more than three decades, has died. He was 57. By Empty, The Associated Press Michael ...

The Brecker Brothers Are Back. After a decade devoted to solo and side projects, the ’70s jazz-funk fusion pioneers have reunited for The Return of the Brecker Brothers, reviving their sound with ...

The Brecker Brothers join forces for a set of mostly highpowered originals at a concert in 2003 Their postbop music is generally funky although Freefall is an uptempo cooker and sometimes a bit ...

Not long after trumpeter Randy Brecker joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1967 and played on the jazz-rock group’s debut, Child Is Father to the Man, he left to join renowned jazz pianist Horace Silver’s ...

This is a music review, not a religious service. But there’s a notion shared by the two, one of life everlasting. A spirituality explained well on opening night at the Xerox Rochester International ...