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  • Missing Michael Brecker

    If you've read my blog or carried on any conversation about jazz with me, I make it no mystery that

  • Jon R. Smith: White Trash, Michael Brecker, Philip Glass

    "I used to occasionally hang out with Mike Brecker in NYC. We would both be sitting in with Paula Lo

  • HIPPITYVILLE - MICHAEL BRECKER & JOHN ABERCROMBIE

    Michael Brecker - Tenor Sax John Abercrombie - Guitar Marc Johnson - Bass Peter Erskine - Drums...

  • Michael Brecker - Saxophone Master Biography

    By Neal Battaglia Saxophone virtuoso Michael Brecker was given an early start in jazz by his amat

  • Jazz on the Green

    Haven't posted much in the last few weeks, but I'm back for more! For those of you who are long-time

    • Biography Michael Brecker

    Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane,"http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_6010731 he won 13 Grammys as both performer and composer. Biography Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Cheltenham Township, a local suburb, Michael Brecker was exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians who saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option, Brecker began studying clarinet, then moved to alto saxophone in school, eventually settling on the tenor saxophone as his primary instrument. He graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1967 and after only a year at Indiana University, Michael Brecker moved to New York City in 1970 where he carved out a niche for himself as a dyna

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