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 ...

On stage at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland last July, the ubiquitous trumpeter Randy Brecker lowered his horn after playing two joyous and funky numbers on the stage that is one of the ...

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 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 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 ...

On this week's Piano Jazz, guest host and pianist Bill Charlap is joined by Randy Brecker and his band — Brecker's wife, Ada Rovatti, tenor saxophone; Jill McCarron, piano; Steve Laspina, bass; and ...

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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 ...

From 1975 to 1981, the Brecker Brothers ruled jazz-funk with their splicings of virtuosic hard-bop and dancefloor grooves. Following saxophonist Mike Brecker's death in 2007, trumpeter Randy left ...

Alas, an actual reunion of the Brecker Brothers' seminal fusion band is out of the question since the death of younger brother Michael in 2007. But when trumpeter Randy Brecker started putting a band ...