On tonight's Jazz on 3, Jez Nelson presents a concert by US saxophone star Michael Brecker, recorded just a few weeks ago at the Barbican Hall in London. Brecker is widely revered as the most ...

AT 15 musicians, a quindectet is not quite a big band but Gil Goldstein's arrangements maximise the available textures to create a near-orchestral background to Brecker's improvisations. Unusually for ...

NEW YORK >> James Taylor and Paul Simon paid tribute to late jazz great Michael Brecker with performances and kind words at a cancer benefit for their friend who died in 2007. Taylor, who Brecker’s ...

Michael Brecker, the jazz saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was considered the most influential tenor player of his generation, died Saturday at a hospital in New York. He was 57. The cause of ...

Michael Brecker, the jazz saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was considered by many the most influential tenor player of his generation, died Saturday at a hospital in New York City. He was 57.

Jez Nelson presents a concert by US saxophone star Michael Brecker. Generally agreed to be the most imitated saxophonist since John Coltrane, he features in this concert both as soloist and composer ...

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Michael Brecker, who died on Saturday aged 57, was one of the most influential jazz musicians of his generation; he was certainly the most imitated tenor saxophonist, and it is unusual to find a ...

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