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Randy Brecker: Randy in Brasil
by John Kelman
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 discography as a leader contains as many misses as it does hits, he's brought a unique voice to countless sessions, working with everyone from Horace Silver, ...
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage & Seraphic Light
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 ...
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.
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.
The Main Attraction
By Grant Green
Label: CTI Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Main Attraction;
Future Feature;
Creature.
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage
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 ...
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage
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 ...
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage
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 ...
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage
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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