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Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage & Seraphic Light

Read "Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage & Seraphic Light" reviewed by Tom Greenland


Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads Up International 2007 Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc 2008 Michael Brecker (tenor sax) was a musicians' musician, with jaw-dropping chops and a unique ...

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Summer Night

Label: Naxos
Released: 2001
Track listing: Never Never Land, Part B. Pure Imagination; Walking On the Moon; Summer Night; Gabrielle; Stage One; Prisoner Of War; Safflower; Solo Piano Medley.

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The Main Attraction

Label: CTI Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Main Attraction; Future Feature; Creature.

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The Tales From The Hudson Band Live In Tokyo

Label: Creative Sources
Released: 2007

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Pilgrimage

Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Mean Time; Five Months from Midnight; Anagram; Tumbleweed; When Can I Kiss You Again?; Cardinal Rule; Half Moon Lane; Loose Threads; Pilgrimage.

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Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage

Read "Pilgrimage" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


Michael Brecker is said to be the most influential tenor saxophonist in jazz since John Coltrane. A thirteen-time Grammy award winner who has achieved numerous other honors, he was a fixture on the scene from the early 1970s until his death earlier this year. With his brother, trumpeter Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker performed with Horace Silver's ...

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Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage

Read "Pilgrimage" reviewed by Samuel Chell


If there's any solace to be gained from the dramatic, heart-rending final months of Michael Brecker's life, it's that perhaps some of the attention bestowed upon this towering musician and exemplary human being will be directed to the vital African-American art form that he influenced and contributed to. As recently as 1990, the average life span ...

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Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage

Read "Pilgrimage" reviewed by Troy Collins


Tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker lost his ongoing bout with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a rare bone marrow cancer, in January 2007. Pilgrimage provides one last chance to hear him in the company of like-minded souls. Joined by a who's who of mainstream jazz royalty, guitarist Pat Metheny, pianists Herbie Hancock and Brad Mehldau, bassist John Patitucci and ...

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Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage

Read "Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The importance of saxophonist Michael Brecker's final recording, Pilgrimage, is densely multidimensional. The romantically inclined will attach significance to the fact that the nine compositions were conceived and recorded while Brecker was aware of the gravity of his final illness. Pilgrimage falls into an artistic/musical category that includes such disparate music as Mozart's Requiem, Puccini's Turandot, ...

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Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage

Read "Pilgrimage" reviewed by John Kelman


Michael Brecker's tragic death in January 2007, at the age of fifty-seven, robbed the world of perhaps the most influential saxophonist to emerge since the equally untimely passing of John Coltrane. It's easy to forget that he was one of the pop/rock world's most called-upon studio players, recording on hundreds of albums with artists including James ...


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