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Randy Brecker
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Jazz trumpeter and composer Randy Brecker has helped shape the sound of jazz, R&B and rock for more than four decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament/Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa.
Born in 1945 in Philadelphia to a musical family, Randy’s musical talent was nurtured from an early age. He attended Indiana University from 1963-66 studying with Bill Adam, David Baker and Jerry Coker and later moved to New York where he landed gigs with such prominent bands as Clark Terry’s Big Bad Band, the Duke Pearson Big Band and the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.
Glimpse
By Jennifer Lee
Label: SBE Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Caught a Glimpse of Your Soul;
Farewell to Comfort;
Dave Don't Mind the Rain;
Vivid Technicolor Love;
If I Only Had a Brain;
Serendipity;
Warrior, Drop Your Sword;
Hold ON;
Superhero;
Here You Are;
Strange and Beautiful
Weekend At Smalls
By Dave Kikoski
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Winney's Garden; Shadow; There's A Mingus A Monk Us; Presage; Straight No
Chaser; Moontide; Cecilia.
Day Trip
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Morning Light (feat. Eric Marienthal);
On The Road (feat. Marcus Miller & Sheila E.);
Let’s Drive;
With You (feat. Isaiah Sharkey);
U-Turn (feat. Branford Marsalis);
By Your Side;
In The Vines (feat. Kirk Whalum);
The Winding Path (feat. Mike Stern);
Sunset Kiss;
A Hundred Miles (feat. Randy Brecker & Eric Marienthal);
Home Again.
The Parts You Keep
By Mike Pope
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Misgivings; Steeplechase; Giant Steps; Dashan’s Flying Ubercar; That Old Feeling; Barolo Blue; Past is Prologue;
The Parts You Keep; Winterreigen, Op. 13: V. Sphärenmusik.
Quem Sabe [Feat. Ada Rovatti, Randy Brecker, Michel Freidenson]
By Luiz Millan
Label: Jazz Station Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Quem Sabe [Feat. Ada Rovatti, Randy Brecker, Michel Freidenson]
Building Characters
By Charles Chen
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Kismet; Zhong Fei, Fierce Warrior; If on a Winter’s Night O Traveler…; Colossus of Rhodes; Alice
in Wonderland; Straw Hot; Soph, Aeon of Wisdom; Stardust.
Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep
by Jack Bowers
You have to admire a bandleader who enhances an album by dedicating one of his compositions to an Uber driver and inviting his 85-year-old mother to play piano on the last two numbers. That is exactly what bassist Mike Pope does on The Parts You Keep, and they are two of the recording's more pleasing episodes. ...
Aki Rissanen: Imaginary Mountains
by Neil Duggan
Finnish pianist Aki Rissanen has built an impressive discography through collaborations with artists including Rick Margitza, Dave Liebman and Randy Brecker, contributing to 18 albums as either leader or co-leader. Yet he is perhaps best known for the part he plays in leading one of European jazz's most distinctive piano trios, the Aki Rissanen Trio.
Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times
by Dean Nardi
Jamie Baum is a world-class composer as well as flutist, who smoothly balances woodwinds with horns, guitar, bass, piano and drums so that they are equals. Her compositions can remind you of a Gil Evans arrangement with several decades of development added to create a thoroughly modern milieu. She mixes high-energy with ballads and Western foundations ...
